Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

<br/>Do you love building strategic relationships with customers? Do you possess both a business and technology visionary mindset? Can you picture yourself in a role where you are both the voice of Amazon to our external customers and the advocate of our customers to our internal teams?<br/><br/>A Strategic Accounts Solutions Architect responsibilities include being a trusted partner to the sales leadership, a trusted advisor to our strategic customers and partners, and helping driving the agenda for which solutions we build and deliver. You will support strategic opportunities while closely following industry trends and insights to craft new strategic customer opportunities and product priorities. Regularly evangelizing Amazon solutions and roadmaps as one of our thought leading technical experts with customers and at industry conferences.<br/><br/><br/>As a Solutions Architect focused on SAP within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's Web Services (Amazon EC2, Amazon Machine Learning services, AWS IoT and many more).<br/><br/>The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in both, enterprise architectures and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills that will enable you to represent AWS well, to SAP’s developers, architects and executives.<br/><br/>The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.<br/><h3>Basic Qualifications</h3><br/><ul><li>The right person will possess several years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or internet industries and demonstrate a strong understanding of modern enterprise applications, server technology, and network security. Basic understanding of containers and modern application architecture</li></ul><br/><br/><h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Significant experience in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Application Services, Machine Learning, Big Data and/ or distributed computing</li><li>Practical experience in cloud computing architecture work, systems or application design, development or operations.</li><li>Past experience on Cloud Computing platforms is preferred.</li><li>Working knowledge of AWS platform</li><li>Working knowledge and experience with social / online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/ or setting an industry standard</li><li>A history of successful speaking engagements, industry influence is preferred</li></ul><br/><br/><br/>Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.<br/><br/>m/w/d