Amazon - Chicago, IL
posted 29 days ago
Full-time - Senior
Chicago, IL
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About the position
The Senior WW Specialist Solutions Architect for Amazon Connect at AWS is a highly technical role focused on providing deep expertise in cloud solutions to help customers adopt AWS services effectively. This position involves engaging with customers to solve complex challenges, leading architectural reviews, and acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders. The role requires collaboration with various teams to innovate and drive large sales opportunities, ensuring successful deployment of AWS solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
- Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers' most challenging business problems.
- Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
- Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer's technical objectives.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams. Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.
Requirements
- 7+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications
- 5+ years management of technical, customer facing resources
- 5+ years of experience building integrations across WFM, CRM, and contact center solutions or experience with communications protocols and APIs such as WebRTC and SIP or similar CCaaS technology.
Nice-to-haves
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
- Computer Science/relevant degree and/or experience highly desired and Experience developing solutions and passion for hands-on experience with scripting/coding (e.g. python, java, c#, .NET, or Node.js)
Benefits
- Work-life balance
- Mentorship and career growth opportunities
- Diverse experiences and inclusive team culture
