Amazon - Minneapolis, MN

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Minneapolis, MN
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About the position

As a Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will play a pivotal role in driving cloud transformation for our enterprise customers. This position is designed for individuals who are passionate about leveraging AWS to enhance agility, improve security, reduce costs, and expand global reach. You will engage with top-tier enterprise clients to understand their business drivers, assess their application portfolios, and design reliable, cost-effective cloud-native architectures. Your collaboration with AWS Sales and various AWS teams will be crucial in creating solutions that address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In this highly technical role, you will be expected to possess a broad competency across multiple technology areas, including infrastructure, security, DevOps, databases, application development, and analytics, while also having deep expertise in at least two to three of these domains. You will spend a significant portion of your day interacting with various customer stakeholders, including developers, team leads, engineering directors, and CxOs. Your ability to connect technology with measurable business value will be critical in this role. We are looking for self-motivated candidates with a proven track record in software or technology sales or consulting. You should be comfortable at the intersection of technology and business, and possess a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. Your past experience as a systems or support engineer, along with pre-sales experience, will be beneficial. You will also be expected to keep your technical skills sharp and develop new ones to contribute effectively to deep architecture discussions. Regular participation in deep-dive education and design exercises will be part of your responsibilities, allowing you to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Formulate and execute a sales strategy in partnership with the sales team to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
  • Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform as a key member of the business development and sales team.
  • Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
  • Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
  • Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
  • Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
  • Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
  • Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.

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.
  • Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.
  • Experience working with end user or developer communities.

Benefits

  • Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
  • Work-life balance initiatives.
  • Employee-led affinity groups fostering a culture of inclusion.
  • Ongoing events and learning experiences for diversity and inclusion.
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