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Amazon Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Description
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.
You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects. Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases.
You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
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 Benelux organization and you would be working with Enterprise customers.
Come build the future with us.
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
This position is for someone who already has some technical and/or customer-facing skills and built some unique technical capabilities through their prior work or academic experience. The requirements listed below are expected of a perfect candidate who can hit the ground running on Day 1. You are not required to meet all of them, but we would like you to meet most of them. After joining us, you will be provided with a 3-month ramp-up plan . During this time, you will have an opportunity to bridge any gaps between your current capabilities and our expectations.
While we may occasionally guide you on what needs to be done, we expect you to manage execution/delivery of your projects completely autonomously
We expect you to tackle ambiguous customer requirements, go beyond what they say and into what they really need, and develop new solutions that best match those needs. You will then need to present your solutions to the customers clearly, answering any questions that they may have.
We expect you to be able to deeply understand AWS platform and architectural best practices. Using this knowledge, we expect you to guide our customers on how to architect their applications in the cloud taking into account variety of requirements, such as security, performance, scalability, availability, operability, and cost.
We expect you to bring to our organization unique technical capability, be it specialized knowledge in a particular technical or industry domain, or other skill where you will become a go-to person within your team
When working with our customers, we expect you to be able to influence entire engineering teams and their managers by demonstrating strong architectural competence and knowledge of cloud best practices
When working with your colleagues at AWS, we expect you to influence other Solutions Architects, Sales, Marketing, and managers within your larger organization when discussing mid-term customer strategy and architectural best practices
We expect you to independently develop and deliver public speaking in 1-to-many group settings, such as Meet-Ups or group sessions at the customer's site
We expect you to independently develop and deliver internal training to various audiences, technical and non-technical, across entire AWS BeNeLux
We expect you to independently develop reusable content, such as blog posts, podcasts, or small videos
We expect you to independently develop new reusable demos of high complexity, present them to your own customers, and iterate on them until they reach the level of quality when your colleagues across larger organization would want to use them with their customers
A day in the life
After joining our team, you will be provided with a ramp-up plan and a mentor to ensure you get off to a good start (see Basic Qualifications for more information). After that we will ask you to dive deeply into your customer's business and technology situations and help them identify which of their issues and goals can be best served by adopting AWS cloud. We will also ask you to enable the customers to be successful in their cloud adoption by answering their technical questions, removing technical blockers they encounter, delivering hands-on workshops, and providing architectural guidance. At AWS, Customer Obsession is in our DNA, so in order to be successful in this role, you will need to become a Trusted Advisor to our customers and to ensure that they are able to achieve their business objectives with the help of AWS cloud technology. Within first 12 months, you will have an opportunity to work with a variety of customers, present at the AWS Summits in Amsterdam and elsewhere in EMEA, conduct internal training, and publish blogs and whitepapers. You will also have an opportunity to influence the direction of our products by providing actionable customer feedback to the service teams.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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.
Basic Qualifications
Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
Bachelor's degree
Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience with AWS technologies
Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering) and fluent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and/or French
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