Associate Solutions Architect at Amazon

Key job responsibilities

• Build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor.
• Work with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
• Create solutions that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Architect for the immediate and future business or technical needs.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Run effective meetings both internally, and with customers while learning to build consensus.
• Advocate and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
• Share the voice of the customer to help improve AWS services over time
• Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).

Basic Qualifications

• Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: Cloud Architecture, Solutions Architecture or Infrastructure Architecture
• Fluent written and verbal communication in English
• Passion for technology and for learning

Preferred Qualifications

• The ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a college project or while working for a company
• Knowledge of a modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java, etc.) and/or scripting, Infrastructure as Code etc.
• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification