Solution Architect, New Zealand Enterprise

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Solution Architect, New Zealand Enterprise DESCRIPTION
• Do you love tackling new business challenges using leading edge technology?
• Are you curious by nature and enjoy experimentation to create innovative solutions?
• Do you want to work somewhere in which you can collaborate and share ideas to enable technology adoption at pace and at scale?

AWS Enterprise Solutions Architects are trusted advisors to our customers, helping them solve some of their largest business challenges by designing and advising on some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient solutions in the world.
Working closely with internal teams at AWS, you'll identify how our customers push the boundaries and how we can improve our services to obsess over our customers.
Being a thought leader who creates and presents content you'll help all of our customers scale and grow in non-linear ways, using AWS as their building blocks.

In this role, you will push technology boundaries and help scale some of the largest companies in New Zealand.
You will have the opportunity to partner with customers early in their cloud journey and help them scale as well as customers further in their cloud journey where you can have visible and measurable impact in their growth ambitions.

You will test traditional thinking by pushing the boundaries for your customers and AWS to dream and deliver beyond what they think is possible.

Our customers' needs are moving fast, so you will too.
Be part of the team helping our largest customers find innovative and transformative ways to reinvent their business!

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
• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform.
Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.

A day in the life
Our solutions architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills.
The variety of customers is huge as we work across all industries within our Enterprise segment, like retail, telecommunications, media and entertainment to name a few.
On a daily basis you will work alongside people who are leading the way in designing cloud bases architecture.
We are the trusted advisor to our customers, so challenge our customers to think differently, learn more build elegant, transformative solutions!

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences.
Even if you do not meet all of the 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
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious.
Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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 career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

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 migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• AWS values diverse experiences.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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