Solutions Architect, AWS Startups

Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with startups of different stages. Supporting the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, they work to understand the customer’s business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology. Solutions Architects also have broader impact at scale, taking a leading role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.

In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to define cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will be learning something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
– As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
– You will own the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
– Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform.
– Create and capture best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
– Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
– Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching and mentoring others.
– Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer’s outcomes.
– Collaborate within the startup ecosystem (accelerators, incubators, VCs and meetups) to educate startups and support their growth.

A day in the life
The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. In a typical week you will meet multiple customers and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions. You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS. Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily.

About the team
The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build and scale their businesses. We’re here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible – and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so. We are a group of technologists with varied backgrounds; from fresh graduates to ex-CTOs, all growing our skills and startup expertise, while working on cutting edge technology use-cases with some of the world’s most innovative companies.

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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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience
– Experience of Software, Systems or Data Design
– Fluency in French and English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT projects – either on premises or in the cloud
– Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.)
– In depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, analytics, Machine Learning, highly secured workloads etc.
– CTO/co-founder/architect experience for a VC-backed technology startup company

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