Amazon Solutions Architect 

Canada, Alberta, Calgary 

970584972

Key job responsibilities
• Build deep relationships with customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads that support their digital transformation and journey to the cloud.
• Support achievement of revenue objectives through the adoption and migration of applications, software, and services onto the AWS platform, in partnership with the sales team.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Contribute to AWS internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge.
• Act as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support to address customer needs.
• Day-to-day; Gather business requirements (both functional and non-functional), Propose solutions, Proof of concepts, Demos (presenting technical topics to a non-technical client audience)
• Open to travel within the city or province and up to 15% out of province as required for customer meetings.
A day in the life
SAs typically are:
• Passionate about designing and guiding cloud architectural builds
• Dedicated to accelerating and scaling innovation, reducing costs and driving efficiency
• Hands-on, getting into details, and possibly writing demo / proof-of-concept code
• Already broadly capable in architect roles, with plenty of hands-on experience
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- 4+ years in a technical solutions architect role, designing, implementing distributed applications, databases, and networks.
- 3 minimum years of exposure to public cloud technoligies
- Client-facing experience

- AWS certifications (AWS Tech Essentials, AWS SA Associate, AWS SA Professional)
- Pre-sales experience and/or experience contributing to requests for proposal
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT managers, and developers
- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.