Senior Solutions Architect - limited travel, Germany Enterprise (German speaking required)

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 Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.

This role is within the German organization and you would be working with Enterprise customers. This role may require up to 30% of primarily domestic travel. The role can be based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt (preferred), or Berlin.

Your job responsibilities include:

1. Work directly with strategic customers to accelerate their challenging, mission-critical projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
2. Build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
3. Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
4. Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
5. Evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
6. Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by interviewing candidates and having a voice in hiring decisions. You will also be helping others develop new skills by mentoring team members.
7. Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.
8. Limited domestic travel (typically less than 30%).

Key job responsibilities

Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They combine business and technology and engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption. Solutions Architects are responsible for creating and presenting technical content and sharing best practices.

Solutions Architects are responsible for the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency. They work to understand the customers' needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with AWS technology. Solutions Architects lead activities such as architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, demos and technical workshops. They collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.

A day in the life

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 or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. The Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have a sound technical foundation and a desire to learn.

You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will learn something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build on behalf of customers.

About the team

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship and Career Growth

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Minimum Qualifications:

1. Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps.
2. Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
3. Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) or relevant tech experience.
4. Fluency in German and English both written & verbal is essential.
5. Passion for technology and for learning.
6. Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud.
7. Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.) and/or scripting, Infrastructure as Code etc.
8. In-depth working knowledge in a technology domain such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, enterprise workloads (SAP, VMware, Windows etc.), high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), complex networking implementations, highly secured workloads etc.
9. AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification.
10. Continued or advanced learning (Master, MBA, PhD or equivalent).

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