Senior Solutions Architect, Retail, Consumer Goods & Restaurants, AWS
As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You'll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers in Retail, Consumer Goods & Restaurants through your passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
* In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
* 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.
* 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 amongst 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.
About the Team
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. The AWS Solutions Architect team partners with customers in Retail, CG & Restaurants to design and build scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions, collaborating with AWS Sales and other teams to accelerate adoption of AWS services.
Basic Qualifications
* 7+ years of experience in technology domain areas such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking or data & analytics.
* 3+ years of design, implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
* Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with cloud architecture, application development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, and IT transformation.
* Experience architecting or designing solutions built on cloud platforms.
* Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
* Ability to design and implement generative AI and agentic solutions that drive business outcomes.
* Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and technical teams.
* Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations.
* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
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.
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