Principal Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Financial Services Industry

Description

AWS is looking for experienced Solutions Architects to help advise our Financial Services customers on how to best adopt and leverage the value of AWS technologies. This is an ideal role for someone with deep experience in the FS industry, expert knowledge of FS applications and infrastructure, and a solid understanding of how cloud services can help FS customers transform their data centers, and more quickly develop innovative industry solutions.

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.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will serve as a core member of the Financial Services industry team, and play a key role in executing our go-to-market strategies and programs at a country or area level. You will identify FS customer needs specific to your area or country; and engage directly with customers and account teams to determine business needs, and help define and develop industry solutions. You will also help coach SAs who are directly supporting FS customers as part of the AWS account teams, and gather and provide feedback to engineering teams on how to help FS customers more easily adopt AWS services.

The ideal candidate will have experience coaching senior engineers or solutions architects; working directly with customers; and helping to define and deploy secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions in Financial Services.

As a Principal FSI GTM SA, travel up to 30% could be included and will be discussed at the interview stage.

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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 AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Basic Qualifications

10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing

Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent

Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent

Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent

Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.