SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, FSI, WW FSI GTM SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE TEAM, WW FSI GTM SA TEAM

DESCRIPTION Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of industry knowledge, technical depth and strong interpersonal skills.
As the AWS Financial Services Senior Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the world’s largest financial services companies, AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
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.
Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain, and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements.
The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by.
• Identifying patterns • Defining technical trends that can affect the industry • Publishing reference architectures • Building industry quickstarts and other development kits • Collecting technical best practices in the industry • Establish credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers’ business problems The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendors or system integrators.
They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise.
They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.
Key job responsibilities • With the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry • You will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners • Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud • Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community • Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers • Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates • Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support • Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS • Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes • Travel may be required for this role, up to 25% About the team 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.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.
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software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience - 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience - 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals - Knowledge of cloud architecture - Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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