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 Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. Partnering with internal teams and leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate daily and define the future of cloud computing. Come join us in making the impossible, possible.

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our Public Sector team to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS cloud services within our strategic accounts and owning the on-going technical relationship with customers in the Australian Government community.

The AWS Solutions Architecture team works with the Australian Government and AWS partners on architecting innovative solutions for all our stakeholders. Our work can be highly sensitive, time critical focusing on strategic and operational outcomes. We are passionate about supporting our Public Sector community and will go the extra mile to ensure we achieve successful outcomes. We are consistently challenged with unique and diverse requirements that require 'out of the box' thinking supported by deep technical knowledge

The broad responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge of how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess communication skills that allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Candidates must Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see https://www.agsva.gov.au/applicants/eligibility-and-suitability)

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll help your customers plan their successful cloud journey. You’ll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures. You’ll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.

Building relationships to understand our customers and partners is key. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives. You’ll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals. Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.

You’ll also act as thought leader in the wider community. This includes playing a lead role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops. You won’t just be part of an industry movement; you’ll be leading it.

As a customer obsessed advisor, you’ll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and service teams.

A day in the life
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About the team
This role is within the Public Sector Solutions Architecture team, working with public sector customers in the Australian Government, National Security and Defence. As a public sector Senior Solution Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s services within critical strategic accounts.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
Can take the lead on a complex technical projects, which may require the participation of other teams to deliver.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
Can create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components.
Experience in working with Federal government
Able to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications)

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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