Solutions Architect, Software & Technology

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, business acumen and strong interpersonal skills. You will engage with some of the world’s largest companies to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate their ability to innovation.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Key job responsibilities

As a trusted customer advocate, the Solutions Architect will work to understand their business needs and provide guidance and best practices on how to leverage cloud technologies to solve these with traditional or innovative solutions.

The ability to connect technology with measurable business value and help customers solve problems is critical to a solutions architect.

You will represent AWS in face-to-face meetings and own the overall technical relationship between AWS and the customer up to C-level.

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

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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 in the cloud.

Basic qualifications

- Solid experience in design/implementation/management of complex distributed IT applications and infrastructure or database architectures

- Awareness of cloud computing benefits, concepts and principles; software development tools and methodologies

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across internal and external organizations

- Demonstrated ability to continuously adapt to new technologies and trends and learn new skills quickly

- Fluency in French and English

Preferred qualifications

- Technical degree; Computer Science, Engineering or Math background highly desired, or equivalent work experience

- History of successful technical sales consulting and architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises

- Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud

- Familiarity with SaaS workloads

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