Senior Solutions Architect

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 Solutions Architect team at AWS helps 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 our customers' business problems. You'll have the opportunity to innovate daily and define the future of cloud computing as part of our team. We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our Public Sector team to help shape and deliver a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS cloud services within our strategic accounts and own 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 our 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 we achieve successful outcomes. We are consistently challenged with unique and diverse requirements that require "out of the box" thinking supported by deep technical knowledge.

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

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

Candidates must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see the government eligibility and suitability requirements).

• As a Senior Solutions Architect, help customers plan their successful cloud journey and solve complex, technical challenges to enable the business. Craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures and drive technical solution discussions with customer teams.
• Build relationships to understand customers and partners. Act 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. Accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community by educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers and blogs, and running workshops.
• As a customer-obsessed advisor, help shape the direction of our products and services through customer feedback and collaboration with engineering and service teams.

A day in the life

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This role is within the Public Sector Solutions Architecture team, working with public sector customers in the Australian Government, National Security and Defence. As a public sector Senior Solution Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's services within critical strategic accounts.

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

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.

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• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience
• Ability to lead complex technical projects, possibly involving multiple teams
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Ability to create PoCs, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or using reusable components
• Experience working with Federal government
• Able to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications)

Acknowledgement of country: 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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