Amazon Principal Solutions Architect 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

556161174

• Do you love tackling new business challenges using cutting edge technology?
• Are you curious by nature and enjoy experimentation to create innovative solutions?
• Do you want to work somewhere in which you can collaborate and share ideas to enable technology adoption at pace and at scale?About the RoleKey job responsibilities
• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform. Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.
• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.A day in the lifeSales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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- 12+ years or more experience in building/ designing user-facing software products and services
- 12+ years in a technical senior management role, developing and nurturing teams of motivated technologists
- Listen to our customers (tech and non-tech) and based on one’s understanding, propose a workable solution and one more by thinking from multiple directions.
- Experience in developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformation toward cloud computing
- Prior experience in communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, conflict resolution including executive level stakeholders, customers and internal facing teams.
- Passion and experience for evangelizing and presenting technical concepts across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

- Experience managing multi-people, large scale, or open source projects
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, database design and implementation
- One or more valid AWS Certifications, such as, AWS Solutions Architect or similar
- Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
- Ability to absorb new technology and baseline it to improve one’s existing understanding