Amazon Careers – Senior Solutions Architect

Job Description:

As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA) for our Canada customers you will own customer technical engagements, diving deep with them and being hands-on with technology. You will evangelize and educate, remove technical sales blockers through knowledge transfer and partnerships, define implementations, and transition architectures. The SA has technical breadth and depth in security, networking, operating systems, storage, application architectures and implementation. You will use these to develop expertise in AWS, including deep understanding of how customer applications and services are best built and operated.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contributing to RFI and RFP responses
• Share customer and partner feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS
• As a strategic member of the AWS Solutions Architect team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our Canadian Education customers
• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful customer engagements
• Contribute to internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solutions Architect community
• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at AWS and third-party technology conferences, trade shows and press events

Job Requirements:

• 7+ years of systems architecture design, software development, infrastructure build and management, or implementation experience
• Executive speaking and presentation skills, including formal presentations, white boarding, large and small group presentations
• Technical pre-sales or sales experience
• Experience with public-sector customers, ideally educational institutions
• Extensive experience as a consultant or solutions provider to external technical customers
• AWS certifications or other external, industry-recognized architectural certifications
• Experience with AWS technology and related technologies such as virtualisation, networking, storage, and data management systems
• Understanding of government compliance, security frameworks and regulations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with or for solutions integrators
• Experience working within the software development or internet industries: this is highly preferred
• Understanding of application, server, network security, and government compliance and security certification models and processes: this is highly preferred

Job Details:

Company: Amazon

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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