Solution Architect - Cloud

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Technical leader in the area of cloud computing for our partners

- Participate in webinars and public speaking

- Author whitepapers, technical articles and blog posts

- Participate in COE efforts with global systems integrators

- Assist with RFP responses and architecture validation of projects

- Organize technical workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across the teams

- Assist partners define the approach, tools, and end state architecture as they migrate customers to Amazon Web Services

- Assist partners build industry & technology solutions on top of AWS platform

- Drive customer POCs to completion

- Work closely with Partner Managers, Partners and AWS Professional Services during the lifecycle of the POC customer engagements

- Validate partner POC architectures, deliverables, SOWs, project plans, and other assets required to successfully deliver customer engagements

- Strategy & Innovation: articulate business/industry fundamentals ( e.g., ROI, CBA, TCO); understand regulations and operational excellence; familiarity with business strategy and trends in the IT industry (e.g., CI/CD, IoT, Predictive Analytics)

- Technology Breadth: demonstrate architectural best practices applied across a breadth of technologies to solve organizational problems, articulate views/roadmaps for future development, and understand the interaction between infrastructure, operations, and development

- Technology Depth: demonstrate detailed knowledge of concepts, implementation, patterns, and issues of at least one technology area; demonstrate the ability to quickly assimilate information about new technologies and business models

Basic Qualifications

- Outstanding customer relationship management experience and collaboration skills

- Experience working with global teams

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

- Passion for working with global systems integrators

- Experience designing and implementing enterprise architectures for Fortune 1000 companies

- Deep experience in four of these technology areas: relational databases, analytics, applications and web servers, application security, networking, data encryption, storage, or application development

- Highly technical and analytical, possessing 10 or more years of related experience

- Compile, deliver, and evangelize end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformation toward cloud computing

- Compile, develop, and deliver architectural guardrails, and align with IT strategy

- Influence stakeholders and ensure compliance within many technology domains that comply with technical and business requirements

- Serve as a subject matter expert to guide technology strategy by convincing decision makers across multiple domains and working with architects in each domain

- Know Infrastructure and application discovery tools, have worked with industry leading compute and database migration tools, have worked on data center or application migration projects.

- BS level degree required, computer science, business or math background preferred;