DescriptionAWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) works 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 are made up of specialists with deep technology and industry expertise who help carry their fields into the future. 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.The AWS EC2 and Networking team was created to make sure customers can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible. You’ll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products.The team is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for our support of EC2 Mac instances. As an EC2 Mac Solution Architect (SA), you will work with customers globally, partner closely with the engineering, business development, and technical field teams to drive the adoption of AWS EC2 Mac instances. The EC2 Mac SA will develop white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of EC2 Mac instances. The EC2 Mac SA will also help drive enablement initiatives to continually develop the best technical field teams in the industry.Roles/Responsibilities
Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | San Jose, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Washington, DC, USABasic Qualifications
7+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications
5+ Years experience building iOS / macOS applications and/or familiarity with macOS build and test pipelines
Breadth of expertise in private and public Cloud Computing (i.e. AWS platform), technologies and architectural best practices.
Expert level ability to interact with senior leadership (e.g. CxO’s, IT Directors) within a customer or partner organization.
Leadership capabilities, having the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse set of customers or partners, across multiple disciplines.
Presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and Executive audiences.
Travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 30% travel requirement.
Preferred Qualifications
History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Familiarity with common enterprise services
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
Strong written communication skills
Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $146,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/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.
