Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, EU-North, Partner Solution Architect

Do you like helping partners solve tough technical problems? Would you like to help some of the best known Systems Integrators in the world utilize cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping companies understand application architectures and integration approaches? Do you want to be part of the partner solutions architects team helping to establish Amazon Web Services as the leading cloud computing platform?

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.

As a Partner Solutions Architect within SMGS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services across the partner community. Your broad responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement with strategic partners. Working backwards from customer business challenges, you will define partner technical enablement strategies which enable our customers and partners to become more successful on AWS.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skills in software architecture and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills at all levels of a partner organization. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.


Key job responsibilities
As a strategic member of the AWS Partner Solutions Architects team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our managed systems integrators. This includes:

- Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful partner engagements worldwide.
- Assist solution providers with the definition of technical strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offering on the AWS platform.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solution Architecture community
- Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ 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

- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

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