Solutions Architect, Telco, Media, Entertainment, Gaming, Sports

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Full-time
 
Location
Sydney NSW
 
Full job description
DESCRIPTION
Come join us and work with the latest cloud technologies that enable our customers to accelerate their adoption of AWS solutions. AWS is where innovation, risks, and ideas are celebrated. We are builders, we try new things, and imagine big dreams. It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious people to be part of our diverse teams.

As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects help our Telco, Media, Entertainment, Gaming and Sports customers understand best practices around modern technology, AI and advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud and deploying innovative solutions. You’ll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of customers through your passion for educating, training, designing and building technology.

As your customer's AWS CTO, you will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your customers, and you will do this by mobilising resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.

Key job responsibilities
Develop deep, consultative relationships with customers to understand their unique business challenges, technical requirements, and compliance needs.
Provide expert guidance on how to optimally adopt and leverage the full potential of AWS services and the broader technology ecosystem to modernize applications, migrate workloads to the cloud, ideate and productionise AI solutions and accelerate the development of innovative industry technology.
Architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions tailored to your customer's industry.
Collaborate cross-functionally with customers to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure and applications.
Enable customers to achieve their business objectives by fully leveraging the capabilities of the AWS services and industry best practices.
Stay abreast of the latest AWS services, features, and best practices to ensure customers benefit from the your knowledge.
Share knowledge and insights to help customers navigate the evolving cloud landscape and contribute to the ongoing development of innovative AWS offerings.

The preference is for this role to be based in Melbourne.

A day in the life
As a Solutions Architect, you will manage your time to support our customers and account teams with your detailed understanding of AWS Services. Where a customer's need is not your forte, you will reach out to SMEs via AWS internal mechanisms while retaining ownership of the customer's inquiry. As a Solution Architect, you will go beyond the technical solution architecture and work with the account teams, specialists and partners to deliver a practical solution that will accelerate the customers business outcome. Having successfully delivered for our customers you will scale your impact through your Thought Leadership and having gleaned customer signals and feedback to improve our services you will work with the Service teams to make AWS products and services better then they are today. You will also contribute to uplifting your knowledge through AWS' broad catalogue of accreditation and education opportunities.

About the team
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

Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

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:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.