Amazon Web Services (AWS) ยท 2 hours ago
Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services (GFS)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$164K/yr - $284K/yr
15+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Principal Solutions Architect for their Global Financial Services (GFS) team. This role involves partnering with major financial services firms to design scalable cloud architectures and drive AWS technology adoption, ensuring successful migration and deployment of applications on the AWS platform.
ConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
As a key member of the customer account team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
In partnership with the customer account team, formulate and execute strategy for successful adoption of AWS technologies
Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency
Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
Qualification
Required
15+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
Preferred
Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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