Solutions Architect, AWS Mining & Manufacturing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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About Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Come join us and work with the latest cloud, AI, and data 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 in our team help Mining, Manufacturing, and Industrial 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 your knowledge.
- Share knowledge and insights to help customers navigate the evolving cloud landscape and contribute to the ongoing development of innovative AWS offerings.
A Day in the Life
As a Solutions Architect, AWS Mining & Manufacturing, you will manage your time to support our customers and account teams with your detailed understanding of AWS Solutions. 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 Solutions 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 customer's 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 than they are today. You will also contribute to uplifting your knowledge through AWS' broad catalogue of accreditation and education opportunities.
About The Team
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.
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.
Key skills/competency
- Cloud Computing
- AI Solutions
- Data Technologies
- AWS Services
- Solution Architecture
- Migration Strategies
- Industrial Solutions
- Customer Advocacy
- Security & Scalability
- DevOps
How to Get Hired at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Research AWS's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in cloud architecture, AI, and industry-specific solutions, aligning with AWS's requirements.
- Showcase AWS expertise: Emphasize any AWS certifications, projects, or hands-on experience in your application.
- Prepare for technical deep dives: Be ready to discuss architecture patterns, migration strategies, and AWS service best practices.
- Practice behavioral questions: Focus on Amazon's Leadership Principles, demonstrating customer obsession and ownership.
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