Amazon Senior Solutions Architect - limited travel 

Germany, Hesse, Frankfurt 

346369345

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.This role may require up to 30% of primarily domestic travel. The role can based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt (preferred), or Berlin.Your job responsibilities include:
* Work directly with strategic customers to accelerate their challenging, mission-critical projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes
* Build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
* Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
* Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
* Evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
* Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by interviewing candidates and having a voice in hiring decisions. You will also be helping others develop new skills by mentoring team members
* Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.
* Limited domestic travel (typically less than 30%)Key job responsibilitiesA day in the life
In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. The Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have a sound technical foundation and a desire to learn.
You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will learn something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.
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- Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud
- Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.) and/or scripting, Infrastructure as Code etc.
- In-depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, enterprise workloads (SAP, VMware, Windows etc.), high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), complex networking implementations, highly secured workloads etc.
- AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification
- Continued or advanced learning (Master, MBA, PhD or equivalent)