Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• 2+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with some of the world's largest Automotive and Manufacturing companies, to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

In collaboration with account managers, you will assist in driving growth across a set of global customers in your defined country. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers.

The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with.

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 make a big impact.

Enjoy working with large, global customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer.

You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions

• Lead discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology strategy and guide them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions

• Design end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen, driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions

• Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate implementation through reusable components, parallel workstreams, etc.

• Share knowledge by developing technical content like sample code, presentations, workshops to exemplify best practices and educate customers

• Drive product innovation by gathering customer feedback, translating needs into clear requirements, and partnering with product teams through development

• Resolve complex technical problems through root cause analysis, both for customers and internally

• Contribute strategic planning, recruiter/develop talent, build team consensus, and provide guidance to more junior solutions architects

A day in the life

In your role as a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for managing the technical relationship between customers and AWS. You'll make recommendations related to security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.

This will involve understanding customer business needs and providing guidance on how to leverage technology for business value. You'll collaborate with various teams, including account management, professional services, support, product teams, and the AWS partner ecosystem.

About the team

Our team consists of passionate technologists advising some of the largest Automotive and Manufacturing strategic customers on their cloud journey.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Francisco, CA, USA

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.