Amazon Sr Solutions Architect Enterprise Transformation 

United States, Kansas 

151155458

In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as developing and shaping the customer and solutions-focused skills. You will enjoy learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology and be skilled at communicating technology strategies to EVP/C-Suite customers. Furthermore, thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers, and helping to change how technology is viewed are important aspects of the role. You will help team members ramp-up on AWS as well as develop speaking, writing, presentation, and executive interaction skills. You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing yourself to executive management.
Key job responsibilities
• As a key member of the Solutions Architect team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services onto the AWS platform
• Mentor Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to Global Integrators who are considering or using AWS
• Define and execute on the technology migration strategy by engaging highly technical teams within AWS (other Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners) to define migration pathways.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
• Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS
• Work with the team to drive POCs to completion
• Work with the team to organize technical workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across teams
• 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
• Interface with internal leadership and external customers at the executive CxO level
• Closely collaborate with executive stakeholders across the organization, including service teams, Business Development, Marketing, Professional Services, Training, and OperationsBasic qualifications* Bachelor's Degree in Technical Discipline or equivalent
* 10+ years of technical design/implementation/consulting experience
* 7+ years of experience in senior technical positions within the technical sales space, and enterprise solution selling experience
* 5+ years of experience leading and developing technology teams
* Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations, IT transformation, information security and risk management for enterprise customers
* Experience leading architecture for multi-tower global customer transformations in areas such as mainframe, SAP, and OraclePreferred qualifications
* A Master’s Degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent technical degree
* Experience successfully partnering with and communicating effectively to C-suite Executives on long term, highly strategic programs
* Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms with experience architecting and deploying production cloud workloads on AWS
* Enterprise Architecture experience, certifications, and building modern cloud strategies
* Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizationsAbout the teamAbout the Team
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- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience