AMER Partner Solutions Architect
DESCRIPTION
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.
Do you want to help AWS partners solve complex technical problems and empower them to build innovative cloud solutions? As an AMER Partner Solutions Architect, you will work directly with consulting and technology partners, leveraging your deep technical expertise and strategic business acumen to drive their success on the AWS platform. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with AWS engineering teams, influence product roadmaps, and share your knowledge with the broader partner community through thought leadership. If you're passionate about the latest cloud technologies and helping others achieve their business goals, this is the role for you.
Key job responsibilities
- Ensure partner success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
- Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Work directly with AWS engineering teams to advise on their roadmap, assist with architecture design, guide their implementation and help promote their services as a catalyst
- Drive organizational technical initiatives from ideas to fruition including design, implementation, automation and scale
- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, and proof of concepts
- Build relationships with senior technical individuals internally and externally to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect community
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A day in the life
As an AMER Partner Solutions Architect, you will own technical engagements with a diverse portfolio of AWS partners, from startups to large enterprises. On any given day, you might be leading an architectural design session with a partner's engineering team, advising on the best approach to migrate a complex application to the cloud, or working with an AWS product team to ensure their offerings meet the needs of our partners. You'll also author technical content like whitepapers and blog posts, and represent AWS at industry events, sharing your expertise and inspiring partners to innovate on our platform.
About the team
The AMER Partner Solutions Architect team is responsible for scaling the discovery, development, and delivery of high-quality cloud capabilities for AWS customers with AWS partners. We work closely with AWS sales, partner, and engineering teams to ensure our partners have the technical support and resources they need to build successful cloud-based businesses. Our team's vision is to be the best place to build cloud-enabled business. As an AMER PSA, you'll be a key contributor to this mission, helping to drive partner and customer adoption, innovation, and success on AWS.
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.
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.
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
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 4+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/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.