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Amazon Solutions Architect , Amazon Web Services Philippines in Taguig, Philippines
Description
The Solutions Architect role is a unique balance of technical depth and customer-facing experience to work with external customers and internal teams to craft scalable, secure solutions.
As a trusted customer advisors, Solutions Architect help organizations understand the opportunities to develop and build solutions on AWS. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to drive adoption of cloud within organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. You should be comfortable building technical credibility with Developers, Solution Architects, Product Managers and C-level stakeholders.
The Role:
At Amazon, we are continuously striving to me the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS have been helping over one million customers in over 190 countries, from Globe, Union Bank, PLDT, Maya Bank, BDO, GCash and other large Philippine conglomerates to deliver flexibility, scalability and reliability across their organizations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented, bright and driven individuals who work hard, have fun and make history.
As a Solution 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 services within strategic accounts across Italy.
Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.
The ideal candidate will possess customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business, product, and technical challenges.
The AWS SA team provides a ramp-up program that includes self-paced learning, instructor-led training, hands-on projects, job shadowing opportunities, and a peer-reviewed opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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.
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Key job responsibilities
Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers, drive AWS adoption and revenue.
Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, etc.
Present sessions at AWS and industry conferences.
Technical liaison between customers, service engineering & support teams.
Serve as a key member of the sales team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
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What if I don’t meet all the requirements?
That’s okay! We hire people who have a passion for learning and are curious. You will be supported in your career development here at AWS. You will have plenty of opportunities to build your technical, leadership, business and consulting skills. Your onboarding will set you up for success, including a combination of formal and informal training. You’ll also have a chance to gain AWS certifications and access mentorship programs. You will learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today.
A day in the life
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 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.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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About the team
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.
This role is part of the Philippines team, working with our Growth Customer Segment based out of our Manila office. You will work directly with a variety of customers from large, established enterprises to businesses to those who are the early stages of their cloud journey.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technical managers to coach, grow, and partner with technically skilled, customer-facing Solutions Architects. You will help develop the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices, solution selling, presentation and speaking skills, as well as how to create and present architectures of widely varying size and complexity. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. If you think you have what it takes to lead the best in the industry, AWS is hiring Leaders for our teams of Solutions Architects.
Basic Qualifications
*+ years of extensive design, implementation or consulting experience and deeper understanding in one or more technology domain areas like software development, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics.
Can create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components.
Understands and can articulate common architectural patterns and design principles
Can take the lead on a complex technical project, which may require the participation of other teams to deliver.
Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
Extensive experience in infrastructure or software architecture, with knowledge in associated technology areas such as databases and networking.
Extensive experience in infrastructure or software architecture, with knowledge in associated technology areas such as databases and networking.
Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud.
Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
Demonstrated thought leadership through public speaking and / or publications.
Able to create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others.