About the role

What will you do at Amazon?

Do you want to help define the future of Go to Market (GTM) at AWS using Agentic

AI? AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep

domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature

designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who

have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft

scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those

challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application

or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and

unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS GenAI Specialist SA!

AWS is looking for a Specialist Solutions Architect who will be the Subject

Matter Expert (SME) for helping customers in designing solutions that leverage

our agentic AI services for software developers. You will interact with

customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in

implementation of AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to

customers and guide customer on adoption patterns and paths for AI driven

software engineering. As part of the Worldwide Specialist organization, you will

work closely with other SAs from various geographies to enable large-scale

customer use cases and drive the adoption of Amazon Web Services for AI

services. You will interact with other Data Scientists and Solution Architects

in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements. You will develop

white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable

customers and partners to fully leverage AI services on Amazon Web Services. You

will also create field enablement materials for the broader technical field

population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS AI solutions into

customer architectures. You drive effective feedback gathering from customers,

and you distill and translate that feedback into clear business and technical

requirements for product and engineering teams to review.

Key job responsibilities

- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams

to influence feature development and future product roadmap.

- Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to

unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.

- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS

blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as

AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.

- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of

best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.

- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter

experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA

population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services

solutions into customer architectures. Basic

Qualifications

- 8+ 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
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or
Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of
infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely
and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to
standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively
and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional
customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company
policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship
with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties
and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company
policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and
respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and
safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los
Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified
applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for
employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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
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information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
[https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].
USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, OR, Portland - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

Which skills does this role require?

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