Solutions Architect, Product Acceleration, WWPS

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Do you want to be part of a team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading innovation platform? Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the AWS Product Acceleration program. This program is centered around helping AWS customers bring their new idea to market using modern cloud-native architectures and AI-powered solutions. We equip customers with the technical and business guidance they need to be successful. Addressing this market need is the goal of the Product Acceleration program.

As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. This will include a range of deliverables, including architectural proposals and deep dives, POC solutions, blogging, conducting workshops, driving adoption of AI-Driven software product development processes, and lots of whiteboard problem solving, and celebrating the launch of a customer solution! You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community.

Candidates should have a broad and deep set of product architecture and design skills. We're looking for builders who have hands-on, in-the-weeds experience designing and developing software solutions that leverage AI and GenAI capabilities. You will get the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate senior engineers at both top AWS customers and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation. Strong public speaking and writing skills are required. In this role, candidates will also have the opportunity to write white papers, deliver technical webinars, and speak at events.

Please apply if you are passionate about the following:

Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures integrated with AI and GenAI technologies

Our company credo: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history." It's critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.

Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends, particularly in AI and machine learning.

With experience in the following key areas:

Technical presentation experience - White board, small and large group presentations

Technical - Cloud-hosted software development/deployment experience, cloud computing, AI/ML implementation, and GenAI solutions

Operational - Cloud-hosted software operations, management, security, and AI governance

Ability to travel 30%

Key job responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the following:

- Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures

- Our company credo: “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.

- Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

With experience in the following key areas:

- Technical presentation experience - White board, small and large group presentations

- Technical - Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing

- Operational - Web site/services operations, management, and security

- Ability to travel 30%

A day in the life

- In partnership with the Sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS

- As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform

- Educate customers 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 (i.e Dev Days or Immersion Days)

- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect community

- Contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers

- Act as a technical liaison between customers, Service Teams and Support

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred qualifications

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Francisco - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Santa Monica - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 144,500.00 - 195,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually