Senior Solutions Architect , AWS GFS Banking
Amazon - New York, NY
posted 4 months ago
About the position
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical breadth and depth, along with strong interpersonal skills. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will collaborate with some of the world's largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and various AWS teams to design highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. This role is pivotal in driving revenue growth across a select group of global financial services customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will guide organizations in understanding best practices for advanced cloud-based solutions and assist them in migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute strategies that build mindshare and promote the broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record of connecting technology to measurable business value. You should demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. Enjoyment in working with large, global customers is essential, as is a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers. A strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions is also crucial for success in this role.
Responsibilities
- Partner with customers to ensure their long-term success by helping them harness the power of AWS services to accelerate their business.
- Formulate and execute a cloud adoption strategy that delights customers and builds strong relationships leading to strategic revenue streams that exceed AWS objectives.
- Become a trusted advisor by gaining deep knowledge of AWS services, design patterns, and best practices, and sharing that knowledge with clients and other Solutions Architects.
- Act as the voice of the customer for AWS service teams to enhance the AWS platform.
- Work with other Solutions Architects to develop reusable solutions to common business and architectural problems.
- Educate customers by leading workshops and hands-on classes to demonstrate how to use AWS services.
- Network and build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customer organizations to enable them to be cloud advocates.
- Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blog posts, and open source projects, and speak at public events.
- Help hire, onboard, and train new Solutions Architects via mentorship and builder programs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or Internet industries.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
- Experience working with end user or developer communities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits packages.
- Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation packages.
- Flexible work-life balance initiatives.
- Ongoing mentorship and career advancement resources.
