Sr. Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services, Hongkong, Strategic Accounts

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Description
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud.

Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support.

We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success.

This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud.

Join us and help us grow.

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Senior Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment, you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services.

In this role, you will help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized application.

You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS Services.

You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.

Along the way, you will get the opportunity to enhance your own body of knowledge and have some fun.

As a core member of the account team, you will drive AWS usage and adoption across a specific customer.

As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand and implement advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate and scale existing workloads in the cloud.

You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS.

You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complimented by technical depth in Accelerated Computing, Containers, Storage, Networking, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VP’s and CXOs.

If you are excited about the prospect of using your cloud architecture experience to assist our most valuable customers, tackling challenging problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, enhancing and growing your own skills, and having fun, then we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
This role is within the GCR Solutions Architect team and you would be working with GCR Strategic customers.

Senior Solutions Architects work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities.

They have a leading role in developing both the strategy and the team itself.

They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to speed-up innovation across their customer segment.

Externally, they are recognized thought leaders and influence the strategy of our customers.

Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.

Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.

Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform.

Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.

Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.

The ideal candidate will posses customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects.

He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

About the team
The Strategic Solutions Architect team is moving some of the largest scale compelling workloads to AWS.

You'll be engaged and will influence engineering teams requiring AWS expertise and in doing so you'll be making a significant impact on Amazon's many businesses.

As an added bonus you'll be part of an extended team of Solutions Architects working with our most Strategic customers.

Come join us and let's do great things for some industry leading customers.

Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection.

Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique.

Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams.

Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.

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Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)

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