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Amazon Sr. Solutions Architect - Efficient Compute, WWSO Global Financial Services in New York, New York
Description
Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, compute background (EC2 Auto-Scaling, Graviton, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, EC2 Spot consumption models, etc.), and skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses?
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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.
We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture.
As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Specialist Solution Architects team, where you will provide technical expertise in AWS’ Compute Services focusing on the Global Financial Services customers. You will dive deep to understand how financial services organizations leverage AWS compute services, create initiatives to drive interests to accelerate migration from on-premises to AWS, and collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver results for our customers. You will also provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap, and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers’ goals.
Key job responsibilities
Interact at the CxO/VP level, as well as with developers and technical architects, to provide technical expertise and ease adoption, develop pipeline, drive top-line revenue, and explore strategic partnerships.
Own the execution for Efficient Compute services, including general Amazon EC2 services, Auto-scaling and optimization capabilities, EC2 Graviton, and EC2 Spot for Global Financial Services customers.
Develop technical artifacts, demos, PoCs, and workshops for GFS customers.
Leverage your deep expertise in Compute to understand the most important customer problems in your region and enable account aligned teams in the field to solve them.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to expand financial services markets/accounts, develop scalable programs to drive adoption, and identify new opportunities within your domain.
Bring customer data and market signals back to Worldwide teams to ensure we are prioritizing the building of the right features and services for our customers.
Collaborate with your GTM colleagues to provide technical insights into GTM strategy and support field marketing to execute local technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements.
Partner with cross functional teams across Financial Services Industry Specialists, Solution Architecture, Partners, ProServe, and Enterprise Support to execute customer acquisition and adoption programs and strategies.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technology domain experience in cloud computing fundamentals and architecture, performance optimization, and orchestration.
5+ years of experience in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, and networking.
Consulting experience in cloud technologies, including public and hybrid cloud platforms.
Deep experience developing solutions that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level.
Bachelor's degree.
Preferred Qualifications
Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills with experience communicating to technical and non-technical audiences.
Established track record of credibility as a technology advisor with customer executives (e.g. CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, CMO) and Line of Business Leaders.
Experience in financial services industry working on complex infrastructure solutions for financial services customers and partners.
Experience in a heavily matrixed sales environment, including developing, implementing, managing, and executing go-to-market growth initiatives and sales motions.
Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.