Senior Solutions Architect, Public Sector

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Our team partners with AWS Professional Services, AWS Training and Certification, AWS Support and Managed Services, and AWS Security Assurance Services to help customers achieve their objectives. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. Partnering with internal teams and leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you'll craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customers' business problems. You'll have opportunities to innovate daily and help shape the future of cloud computing.

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Public Sector team to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS cloud services within our strategic accounts, owning the ongoing technical relationship with customers in the Australian Government community.

The AWS Solutions Architecture team works with the Australian Government and AWS partners on architecting innovative solutions for all stakeholders. Our work can be highly sensitive and time critical, focusing on strategic and operational outcomes. We are passionate about supporting our Public Sector community and will go the extra mile to ensure successful outcomes.

The broad responsibilities include owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing deep expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge of how applications and services are constructed on the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess communication skills to represent Amazon well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel, as well as a technical background to interact with software developers and architects. They should think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance.

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you'll help customers plan their cloud journey, solve complex technical challenges, and craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures. You'll drive technical solution discussions and dive deep into details with customer teams. You'll build relationships to understand customers and partners, acting as a trusted technical advisor to influence stakeholders from technical teams to executives, and help ensure short-term technology decisions align with long-term goals. You'll contribute to accelerating the adoption of AWS services. You'll also act as a thought leader, educating and sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers and blogs, and running workshops. You'll have opportunities to shape the direction of AWS products and services by gathering customer feedback and collaborating with engineering and service teams.

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About The Team

This role is within the Public Sector Solutions Architecture team, working with public sector customers in the Australian Government, National Security and Defence. You will help shape and deliver a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS services within critical strategic accounts.

Diversity & Inclusion

AWS values diverse experiences. If you do not meet all preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply. We value non-traditional paths and alternative experiences.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continue to innovate. Our customers range from startups to Global 500 companies.

Company info

Company: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Job ID: A3069868

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics
• 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Ability to lead complex technical projects, potentially coordinating multiple teams

• Experience communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Ability to create proofs of concept, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or using reusable components
• Experience working with Federal government
• Ability to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications)

In the spirit of reconciliation, Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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Job location: Bankstown, Sydney, and surrounding areas in New South Wales, Australia (various postings in NSW)