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Description

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?

Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects using the newest technology?

Would you like to gain the deepest customer and partner insights on maximizing the value of cloud computing technologies? At AWS, we’re hiring highly technical Cloud Architects to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements, while also helping our partners develop technical expertise and capacity. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as, web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.

• Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field business development, marketing, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services (http://aws.amazon.com/products/) such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), etc.

• Solutions - Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in on-site visits with prospective customers, understanding customer requirements, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements.

• Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.

• Insights - Work with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services.

• Long term development of large, complex, and distributed enterprise organizations

• Engage with customers to understand their business drivers and application portfolio

• Development of long term Cloud Strategy for customers

• Identify & develop specific opportunities and supporting business cases

• Deal shaping, including estimations and deal pricing

• Contract negotiations & closing

• Planning and implementation of a portfolio of projects, including budget & deliverable responsibilities

• Mitigation of delivery risks & issues

• Overseeing delivery of projects in account, ensuring high quality delivery

• Act as single person of contact for Customer executives, developing deep, trustful relations

• Educate customers on AWS services and translate those into a clear business value proposition

• Envision and inspire customers

• Coaching Customer and Partner teams to be self-sufficient.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Current hands-on software development experience required; Internet-related business models preferred

• Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of cloud solution at scale

• Highly technical and analytical, possessing 7 or more years of IT implementation experience

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

• Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science

• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations

• Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.

• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments