Snr Cloud Application Architect, GFS EMEA

Are you a developer who has hands-on experience with building cloud-native applications? Would you like to work with our customers to help them architect, develop and re-engineer applications to fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big new things faster and at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest application technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?

Key job responsibilities

At AWS, we are hiring the best hands-on technical developers, who can help our clients and partners architect and re-architect their business-critical applications to take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS cloud. Our consultants will collaborate with partner and client teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects, conduct topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions built with API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, and others.

As a Senior Cloud Application Architect you will lead complex projects with autonomy and discretion, often involving multiple Amazon and customer teams. You will work with customers and partners, leading them through planning, prioritization and delivery of complex transformation initiatives, while collaborating with relevant Sales and Service Teams. You will design and deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale and performance, and in turn, enable breakthrough innovations. You will create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms. You will guide customers’ technical architecture and investments, maximizing alignment with the AWS platform, and ease of adoption as new services and products become available.

About the team

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.

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

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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.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
2. Experience in large-scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Node.js, .NET, Python, PHP or Ruby.
3. Experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.
4. Ability to think about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
5. French, English are required.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or Math.
2. Extensive experience architecting, designing, and developing applications on AWS platform, including containerized and serverless technologies.
3. Proven track record in designing highly available systems utilizing load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability principles.
4. Significant experience with Agile software development and DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g., AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, Gitlab, Circle-CI).
5. Substantial history of working directly with customers, partners, or third-party developers in a technical capacity.

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