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Description

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborating with the global account team on strategic customer opportunities.

• Consulting with various business units within the customer on how to best leverage the AWS platform to transform their business.

• Help design software architecture for the customer’s products using cloud services and building on top of AWS

• Support the customer’s internal and external use of the AWS platform by working on technology concepts & strategies, together with product and technical leads at the customer.

• Work with the customer’s technical leadership to help shape their cloud strategy.

• Share your learnings with the larger AWS community

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

A day in the life

As a Solutions Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's web services (Amazon compute, Amazon Machine Learning services, Database services and many more) across multiple lines of business and product teams in the North American subsidiaries of this Fortune 500.

For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complimented by technical depth in one or two core areas, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions while articulating the business value of the AWS platform. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VP’s and CXOs. The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in customer facing technology presales or delivery scenarios.

If you are excited about the prospect of using your technical architecture experience to assist one of our most valuable customers, we would love to hear from you! You can expect to tackle challenging cloud problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, and enhancing and growing your own skills - all while having fun.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

This role can be based in London or Munich

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/aws-strategic-solutions-architects

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Fluent in French

• Significant experience working in a technology evangelist, developer relation, or technical executive role

• Strong knowledge and experience with cloud computing infrastructure, application development platforms and popular programming languages

• The ability to work cooperatively with, and gain the respect of, software developers is a must

• Outstanding public speaking and presentation skills

• Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience architecting, operating cloud-based solutions. AWS SA Professional Certification preferred.

• Significant experience in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Application Services, Machine Learning, Big Data and/ or distributed computing

• Practical experience in cloud computing architecture work, systems or application design, development or operations.

• Past experience on Cloud Computing platforms is preferred.

• Working knowledge of AWS platform

• Working knowledge and experience with social / online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/ or setting an industry standard

• A history of successful speaking engagements, industry influence is preferred Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.

• We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.

• We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.

• We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).