Senior Solutions Architect, EMEA Public Sector

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing public sector business in EMEA.

You would be part of a friendly and supportive team, working together to bring the latest in disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to organizations serving the public.

As a Solutions Architect in the Multi-National Organizations Air Transport Team you will be supporting some of the most important organizations to accelerate and scale innovation, reduce costs, drive efficiency and use cloud technology in support of their missions.

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions for business challenges, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community.

You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences) If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while challenging what many think impossible, come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities

• Owning the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor.
• Educating customers and partners on the latest AWS technologies and design patterns.
• Engage with business leaders, technologists, engineers, and analysts with customers to help them to solve problems and gain insight using the latest technologies and methodologies.
• Help customers imagine the art of the possible, accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their business outcomes.
• Take part in and lead deep-dive education and technology design exercises to create world-class, Well Architected solutions for organisations and the AWS partners who work with them, including systems integrators and ISVs.
• Advocate on the behalf of the customer. to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform to influence the service roadmap.
• Supporting other members of the account team and aid bid teams in reviewing technical responses to proposals.
• Collaborating and supporting broader AWS teams, Professional Services and AWS Partners, in order to deliver maximum value to customers.
• Building on your existing technical breadth and industry experience, you will develop expertise in AWS technologies to the point that you can not only contribute to but lead deep architecture discussions around systems and applications in the cloud.
• Develop and share best practice knowledge, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) with the worldwide AWS solutions architecture organisation and the AWS customers and partners community.
• Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and customers’ needs.
• Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by helping to hire, coach and mentor other members of the team.

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.

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

Geneva, GE, CHE

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Experience architecting or deploying Cloud / Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers

Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux / Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA / DR,

Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience architecting / operating solutions built on AWS

Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud