Senior Solution Architect, Independant Software Vendors

AWS is seeking an experienced Software Solutions Architect to provide expert guidance to our Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and SaaS platform customers. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping Australian B2B software companies scale-up and grow their business on AWS.

You understand best practices around modern technology, AI and advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for modernising and optimising existing workloads and deploying new innovative solutions. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your customers, and you will do this by mobilising resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.

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.

• Work directly with customers to accelerate their products and initiatives and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical challenges and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Scope and own each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
• 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.
• 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.

A day in the life: Software businesses are investing in cloud-native technology stacks and platforms to iterate faster, increase the velocity of service delivery, achieve a global reach for their products and services, improve their security posture, all whilst keeping the cost to serve and acquire customers as low as possible. Our solutions architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills. You'll help our customers define scalable, resilient and secure architectures using the latest technologies provided by AWS and our partners including serverless platforms and container-based, microservices architecture.

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.

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? 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.

• 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

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

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Company - Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Job ID: A3069906

Location: Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia