Amazon Principal Guidance Lead SA Cloud Optimization Success 

United States, Texas, Austin 

924570572

The transformation from traditional linear distribution architectures to cloud architectures is accelerating at an amazing pace. This principal autonomous role will focus on customer-facing guidance through remote and on-site engagements, and participation in the global architecture guidance leadership. Your role will be a thought leader and a community leader within AWS with a focus on the development and improvement of prescriptive guidance that will help AWS customers identify their business and technical architectural guidance on AWS. You will then be available as a consultant during the development and operational phases. You will work with our product teams to define requirements and features desired by our customers. You will be a member of the global architecture subject matter experts, ensuring success for customers that develop and operate workloads in the AWS Cloud. You will also be speaking at AWS events and developing whitepapers, creating and delivering labs, and creating other content, including reference implementations.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead large organizational initiatives, serving as a key influencer and contributing to strategic planning.
- Program-manage through creating and validating a strategic roadmap, with multiple completion milestones and reviews.
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- Technical degree required; bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related technical field of study.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Solutions Architect/Consultant (strategizing, business planning, reviewing, deploying, managing and architecting workloads in a production environment).
- 5+ years of experience in technical thought leadership within infrastructure or cloud-computing. Experience in publishing technical blogs and papers on the cloud business and technical architectural best practices.
- Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing emerging technical resources.
- Program management experience.

- Relevant industry and technical cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional).
- Familiarity with AI/ML/GenAI technologies and their application on content management lifecycle.