Senior Solutions Architect - Analytics & AI, AGS-NAMER-US-COV-SPEC-SA-Data&AI-Analytics

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world.

These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology.

At Amazon we’ve been using AI-based products for over 20 years. Want to make history? We believe that Data is your Generative AI differentiator.

Looking to solve some of the world’s most challenging data problems at scale? Come and join the AWS Analytics team where we help our customers build and govern some of the world’s largest data lakes, massively parallel data warehouses, and some of the biggest and fastest streaming pipelines.

Thousands of customers run managed analytic workloads on Amazon’s industry leading cloud computing platform.

We are looking for an Analytics Specialized Solutions Architect, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) that can help customers leverage AWS services to solve their most challenging business problems.

AWS Solution Architects are well-respected and highly-visible, partnering across the company to own the customer’s technical experience.

We work directly with our customer’s technical and business leaders, joining forces with Account Managers, Business Development, and Service Teams to enable customer adoption and growth.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs.

As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve.

SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Area Specialist Team is made up of deep domain experts who work directly with our customers to solve their most complex challenges.

We are part of the Account Team, responsible for account planning, opportunity identification, and pursuit. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams, strengthening the product roadmap.

Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.

Key job responsibilities

• Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
• Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers’ most challenging business problems.
• Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer’s technical objectives.
• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re : Invent, etc.

Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.

• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams.

Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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 and 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation / consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S / 4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.

and their architecture and infrastructure needs

• Experience working with end user or developer communities
30+ days ago