Senior Solutions Architect, Media and Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Job Description

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
consistent 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.

Come join us and work with the latest cloud, AI and data technologies that
enable our customers to accelerate their adoption of AWS solutions. AWS is where
innovation, risks, and ideas are celebrated. We are builders, we try new things,
and imagine big dreams. It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious
people to be part of our diverse teams.

As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects in our team customers
understand best practices around modern technology, AI and advanced cloud-based
solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to
the cloud and deploying innovative solutions. You’ll help drive successful
business outcomes across a broad set of customers through your passion for
educating, training, designing and building technology.

As your customer's AWS CTO, you will have the opportunity to help shape and
execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your
customers, and you will do this by mobilising resources within AWS and working
with our extensive partner network.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop deep, consultative relationships with customers to understand their
  unique business challenges, technical requirements, and compliance needs.
• Provide expert guidance on how to optimally adopt and leverage the full
  potential of AWS services and the broader technology ecosystem to modernize
  applications, migrate workloads to the cloud, ideate and productionise AI
  solutions and accelerate the development of innovative industry technology.
• Architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions
  tailored to your customer's industry.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with customers to design, implement, and
  optimize cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Enable customers to achieve their business objectives by fully leveraging the
  capabilities of the AWS services and industry best practices.
• Stay abreast of the latest AWS services, features, and best practices to
  ensure customers benefit from the your knowledge.
• Share knowledge and insights to help customers navigate the evolving cloud
  landscape and contribute to the ongoing development of innovative AWS offerings.

A day in the life

As a Solutions Architect, you will manage your time to support our customers and
account teams with your detailed understanding of AWS Solutions. Where a
customer's need is not your forte, you will reach out to SMEs via AWS internal
mechanisms while retaining ownership of the customer's inquiry. As a Solution
Architect, you will go beyond the technical solution architecture and work with
the account teams, specialists and partners to deliver a practical solution that
will accelerate the customers business outcome. Having successfully delivered
for our customers you will scale your impact through your Thought Leadership and
having gleaned customer signals and feedback to improve our services you will
work with the Service teams to make AWS products and services better then they
are today. You will also contribute to uplifting your knowledge through AWS'
broad catalogue of accreditation and education opportunities.

About the team

Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored
affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what
makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams.
Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and
passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of
our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

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.

IDE statement:

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more
information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
contact your Recruiting Partner.