Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services Amazon
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and customer facing experience. We are seeking Solutions Architects that will have an opportunity to work with customers, account managers and several internal teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and help accelerate the adoption of AWS. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers.

As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. The ability to link technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Open to domestic travel up to 30%.

Roles and Responsibilities

* As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
* Partner with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
* Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
* Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community
* Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
* Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support