Amazon Prototyping Architect PACE 

United States, California 

696983069

Your role as a prototyping architect involves working with customers to develop prototypes that are foundational to production solutions. Prototyping architects are typically full stack developers who are comfortable operating with multiple languages and frameworks to develop prototypes in emerging technology areas such as AI/ML, compute at the edge, robotics, and spatial computing. You will use a variety of AWS services to rapidly develop the prototypes, leveraging modern application architectural principles. You will gain knowledge in emerging technology and business trends, allowing you to share your insights through publicly shared design patterns, blogs, white papers, and reusable assets (i.e. reusable packaged code).In addition, we're looking for these qualities:
- At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and be eager to make a big impact.
- You stay intellectually curious and continuously develop your technical skills, you can make valuable contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
- You have an area of focus where you are a subject matter expert in technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, some facet of big data ecosystem (e.g. Hadoop), or database expertise.Key job responsibilities- Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams’ roadmaps.
- Position requires travel -- generally 25%About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.Mentorship & 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.Work/Life Balance

- 8+ Years as a Solutions Architect / Software Development Engineer OR 12+ years programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, C# or Python
- Experience building large-scale software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end software systems and all points in between

- Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- History of successful technical sales consulting and architecture engagements (i.e. working prototype solutions, POCs)
- Ability to deliver high quality documents paying attention to detail
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and engineers
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to right level the conversation
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quicklyPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.