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Job Summary As a Solutions Architect you'll help your customers plan their successful journey into the cloud and then adopt modern application architectures that give them the maximum advantage from c Job Summary As a Solutions Architect you'll help your customers plan their successful journey into the cloud and then adopt modern application architectures that give them the maximum advantage from cloud services. You'll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures. You'll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams. You will collaborate with partners, business developers and cloud economists to help your customers find the route to cloud that is right for them. Your goal is always to work backwards from your customer's business needs and accelerate their adoption of the most appropriate AWS technology. The ability to learn new technology and develop industry relevant architectures and convey business value is critical to the role. Building relationships to understand our customers is key. As a trusted technical advisor, you'll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives. You'll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals. Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day. You'll also act as a thought leader in the wider community. This includes taking part in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops. You won't just want to be part of an industry movement you'll want to be leading it. As a Builder, you'll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and service teams. Basic Qualifications Background in any other following or related to Technology Architect, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developers, Engineering Lead, Sales Engineer, Pre Sales Engineer or Systems Engineers, etc. Experience and/or deeper understanding in one or more technology areas (e.g., software development, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics). Experience in cloud migrations and transformations led by a move to cloud Can create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components. Understands and can articulate common architectural patterns and design principles Can take the lead on a technical project, which may require the participation of other teams to deliver. Able to create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others. Able to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications) Accommodate occasional travel Preferred Qualifications Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate Demonstrated thought leadership through public speaking and / or publications 4 years' experience as a Solution Architect or related role. Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.