Amazon Senior Solutions Architect AWS Industries Telco 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

728064203

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to partner with enterprise customers in the telecommunications sector. In this role, you will help design and architect cloud solutions across the full spectrum of enterprise IT needs - from modernizing legacy applications and data centers to implementing innovative cloud-native solutions. You'll work with customers to drive their digital transformation initiatives while ensuring their specific industry requirements are met.As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud solutions and provide strategic guidance on migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You will build deep relationships with senior technical leaders to enable them as cloud advocates within their companies. A core responsibility is educating customers on the value proposition of AWS through training sessions, deep architectural discussions, and cloud acceleration programs.You will drive revenue growth by formulating and executing sales strategies in partnership with the AWS Sales team. This involves mobilizing internal AWS resources and the partner ecosystem to ensure successful application/service builds and migrations onto AWS. Additionally, you will capture and share best practice knowledge across AWS, including authoring customer-facing content like whitepapers and blog posts.Key job responsibilities
Experience architecting enterprise-scale cloud solutions
Deep understanding of application modernization patterns
Expertise in security, compliance, and governance frameworks
Strong background in enterprise architecture principles
Ability to create detailed migration strategies and roadmaps
Experience with hybrid cloud architectures
Knowledge of cost optimization and cloud financial managementA day in the life
A significant portion of your time will be spent conducting technical discovery workshops, architectural deep-dives, and whiteboarding sessions with customer engineering teams. You'll analyze current-state architectures, identify optimization opportunities, and create detailed reference architectures that align with AWS best practices. Through these engagements, you'll help customers build a clear roadmap for their cloud journey while considering security, compliance, and operational excellence.Your expertise will be channeled into developing reusable solutions, writing technical content, and creating proof-of-concepts that demonstrate the art of possible. You'll regularly present to technical and business stakeholders, building consensus around cloud adoption strategies while addressing concerns and removing barriers to transformation.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

- Advanced Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or Information Technology
- 5+ Years of experience working with Machine Learning and Data Science communities.
- 3+ years of experience working with AWS ML technologies.
- Propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges (internal/external) and mitigate business risks.
- Previous experience architecting, building or operating solutions build on AWS
- AWS certifications
- Managed Large Customer engagements
- Ability to build demos, hands-on in the cloud
- Experience writing and publishing technical whitepapers or patents