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. SSAs also use customer feedback to influence AWS product roadmaps and to create scalable mechanisms for our internal technical teams.

The SSA will be responsible for driving customer engagements and developing technical expertise across the worldwide solutions architecture organization in the areas of governance, compliance, and security on AWS.

As the lead expert on services including AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, Audit Manager, and related tools, the SSA will advise customers on building secure, compliant architectures on AWS leveraging these services. They will deliver technical presentations, create reusable assets to support customer engagements, and help establish best practices and reference architectures.

Additionally, this role will be critical in scaling specialized knowledge across the solutions architecture organization. The Specialist Solutions Architect will create training materials, conduct internal workshops, and mentor members of the AWS Technical Field Community (TFC) on AWS services and design principles for governance, risk management, and compliance. They will also coordinate with AWS compliance teams and stay up-to-date on audit standards, regulations, and AWS certifications in this space.

As an SSA, you will be a hands-on technical expert while also driving broader strategic initiatives to establish Amazon as the premier provider for compliant and auditable workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate will have deep technical knowledge of AWS, experience successfully leading customer engagements, and a passion for developing and onboarding technical talent.

Key job responsibilities

Lead the efforts to drive adoption of AWS governance and compliance services such as AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, Audit Manager, and AWS Security Hub through technical presentations, workshops, proofs of concept, and production deployments.

Consult with customers to understand their governance, risk, compliance, and audit requirements, and architect optimal solutions utilizing AWS services.

Implement and lead projects to develop reusable artifacts, reference architectures, and thought leadership content to accelerate AWS compliance adoption with customers.

Lead projects to create technical content, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures to enable broader awareness and adoption of AWS compliance offerings amongst AWS customers.

Work with the worldwide specialist team to develop best practices, training, and enablement content to equip the broader AWS field team on governance and compliance topics.

An SSA combines technical skills in Cloud Ops, business acumen, and technical sales skills. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster.

Joining AWS as an SSA will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems, collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers, and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earth's Best Employer.

A day in the life

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 13 employee-led affinity groups, innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

- Experience working directly in customer implementations

- Experience working with end user or developer communities

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

- Bachelor's degree

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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