Specialist Solutions Architect, Core Services, SSO

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Would you like to be part of a team focused on Amazon Web Services core services and accelerating migration of on-prem workloads to run on AWS global infrastructure? Do you have the business savvy, technical background, and sales skills necessary to help position Amazon as the cloud provider with the largest enterprises? As a member of the worldwide leader for this fast growing, exciting space, you will have the opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of a service category that will have a significant impact on our customers global computing model.

As a Specialist Solutions Architect for the AWS Core Services, you will partner with Sales, Professional Services, and other AWS teams to design flexible, scalable and resilient cloud architectures that solve customer business problems. Another important function of the Solutions Architect role is collaborating with AWS Service Teams, providing critical customer feedback to build their application on AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
- Engaging with technical and business decision makers
- Helping customers migrate, optimize and modernize their IDC/VMware/Microsoft applications on AWS
- Validating use cases and technical requirements
- Building architectures and demonstrating technical superiority
- Designing and delivering immersion days
- Providing Thought Leadership in the form of speaking at public events, publishing technical content (blogs, videos, white papers) and sharing your deep expertise with customers.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 6+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 6+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
- Experience with large scale IDC to cloud migration architecture design and implementation
- Knowledge of VMware/Microsoft licensing

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