Partner Sales Solutions Architect

Description
AWS Global Sales (AGS) 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.

About Amazon Web Services
At Amazon, our vision is to be earth's most customer-centric company. In 2006, we launched Amazon Web Services, giving customers access to the same technology we built to serve millions of shoppers on Amazon Web Services () is a secure services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.

The Role

A Partner Success Solution Architect (PSSA) is a specific type of SA that drives scale and accelerates customer outcomes through partner-delivered best practices and solutions. Combining business acumen with technical skills, you will seek to understand customer needs and industry trends to build technical strategies and initiatives that address these repeatably through partners. This includes over 200 services and hundreds more partner solutions across Data, Analytics, Applications, Development, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and others.

This position is part of our Partner Success team in ANZ. You will make an impact by evangelizing partner solutions and capabilities internally, connecting the right partner to customer opportunities through technical knowledge and validation of partner skills and solutions. You will also support prioritized partner opportunities where there is a technical need or opportunity to further scale the partner by your involvement.

A day in the life

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About The Team
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Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the Partner Sales Architecture team in helping to ensure customer success through partners in ANZ.
• Work closely with Parnter Sales Manager (PSM) to support prioritised customer engagement with partners
• Focus on identifying any technology gaps and skills of partner, and create an action plan to fill the gap.
• Scope each engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Own technical engagements, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value (delivery of actual solutions to be done by partners).

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Experience in a similar role as a Solutions Architect, Architect, Technical Consultant, Technical Lead, Software Architect, Engineering Lead, Sales Engineer, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Bachelor's degree
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)

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.

IDE Statement
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Company
- Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Job ID: A3022401