Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture TeamAmazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of financial services industry knowledge, technical depth, and strong interpersonal skills. As an industry specialist, AWS Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the world's largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
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. Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain, and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:
Identifying patternsDefining technical trends that can affect the industryPublishing reference architecturesBuilding industry quickstarts and other development kitsCollecting technical best practices in the industryEstablish credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers' business problemsThe ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendor or system integrators. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise. They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.
Key Job ResponsibilitiesWith the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industryYou will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partnersEducate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloudCapture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect communityAuthor or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapersBuild deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocatesAct as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and supportServe as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWSArchitect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypesTravel may be required for this role, up to 25%About the TeamAWS 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.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalentExperience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publicationsExperience working in Financial Services organizations and implementing solutions in a regulated environment; driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.Experience working as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions in the Financial Services industry.Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSKnowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalentKnowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developersExperience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloudA strong understanding of AWS or other large-scale cloud services providers, and cloud-based services and delivery modes (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS)Deep experience with FSI-related applications, such as core insurance or banking systems, or big data architecturesThe ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a virtual team environmentAWS certificationsPosted: November 20, 2024 (Updated about 15 hours ago)
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