Senior Solutions Architect - Global Strategic Partners (GSP), GSP Sales - Jersey City - ref. d14233119
Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-10 company within the atmosphere and autonomy of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Web Services (AWS) where you can have fun while making an impact. Come and help build the future with us as a Senior Solutions Architect.
See your technical solutions come to life from initial creation to adoption.
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, sales, and several other teams to craft highly flexible, and resilient architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of services. In collaboration with sales, you will help drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers.As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced-based solutions. You will seek out opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broaden the use of the platform across customer organizations.
You will utilize your ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.
You are joining a team that invests in your success by providing comprehensive learning and mentorship programs. The Solutions Architecture team provides an opportunity to work in an open environment that includes self-paced learning, instructor-led training, hands-on projects, and job shadowing opportunities to develop your knowledge of the ecosystem of services and solutions.You will bring a curious mind, a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to understand how technology works. By working backwards from defined customer outcomes, you will achieve results that delight customers. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to long-term customer success.
Role Responsibilities- Build deep relationships with customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads that support their digital transformation and journey to the cloud
- Support achievement of revenue objectives through the adoption and migration of applications, software, and services onto the platform in partnership with the sales team
- Educate customers on the value proposition of cloud and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment
- Contribute to internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge
- Act as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support to address customer needs
This role can sit out of any of our major AWS hubs. Travel is 20-30%.
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.
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Mentorship & 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.- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
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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.