AWS Enterprise Sr. Solutions Architect, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate and Transportation & Logistics

About the role

As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You'll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through your passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your enterprise customers, and you will do this by mobilizing resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network. Travel is expected to be 15-20%. On the business side, strong communication skills are essential. You will spend most of your day interacting with customers via email, phone, video, and in-person meetings - with audiences ranging from developers and team leads to engineering directors and CxOs. We need someone who can adjust tone and technical depth based on the audience, read non-verbal cues effectively, and pick up on unstated drivers behind decisions. Key job responsibilities - Own the technical relationship with customers providing technical advocacy as they build and enhance their products on AWS - Participate in deep architectural and design discussions with customers to create world-class solutions built on AWS - Work with customers to understand their business needs and provide prescriptive guidance on how to leverage AWS technologies - Formulate and execute a strategy to drive adoption of AWS services within customer's platform - Author and contribute to technical publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts that highlight AWS. - Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals at our customer to enable them to be cloud advocates - Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community - Drive successful outcomes for both AWS and customers through technical enablement A day in the life - Own the technical relationship with customers providing technical advocacy as they build and enhance their products on AWS - Participate in deep architectural and design discussions with customers to create world-class solutions built on AWS - Work with customers to understand their business needs and provide prescriptive guidance on how to leverage AWS technologies - Formulate and execute a strategy to drive adoption of AWS services within customer's platform - Author and contribute to technical publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts that highlight AWS. - Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals at our customer to enable them to be cloud advocates - Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community - Drive successful outcomes for both AWS and customers through technical enablement Diverse Experiences AWS 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. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & 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 caree