Specialist Solution Architect, Data & AI

$138,200 - $239,000/Yr

Amazon - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Senior

Herndon, VA

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About the position

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Specialist SAs play a critical role in capturing customer feedback, advocating for roadmap enhancements, and anticipating customer requirements as they work backwards from their needs. As domain experts, SSAs also participate in field engagement and enablement, producing content such as whitepapers, blogs, and workshops for customers, partners, and the AWS Technical Field. US Federal Data & AI Specialist Solutions Architects combine skills in Data, Analytics, AIML, Storage, business acumen, and technical sales. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster. Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems, collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers, and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earth's Best Employer.

Responsibilities

• Own technical engagements for AWS customers in the Federal Data & AI sector.
• Define implementation architectures for customer solutions.
• Act as a subject-matter-expert in AI/ML, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage.
• Advance successful customer outcomes on AWS by creating scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient architectures.
• Capture customer feedback and advocate for roadmap enhancements.
• Produce content such as whitepapers, blogs, and workshops for customers and partners.
• Support customers throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of solutions architecture or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience within AI/ML, Databases, Analytics, and/or Storage.
• 5+ years of decision-maker engagement.

Nice-to-haves

• College/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Technical Cloud Certification.
• Proven ability to lead projects with complex challenges.
• Ability to lead a team or small organization-wide initiative with business objectives that are partially defined.
• Strong ability to determine solution strategy and simplify or extend solutions for the best outcome.
• Ability to influence customer and internal business decision makers as a technical thought leader.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package.