Description

　　Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner some of the worlds largest companies, to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with account managers, you will assist in driving growth across a small set of global customers in your defined country. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

　　Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

　　Be great fun to work with.

　　At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

　　Enjoy working with large, global customers as an active contributor to a diverse team. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.

　　Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

　　Roles and Responsibilities:

　　Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform

　　In partnership with the account management team, formulate and execute a strategy

　　Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud

　　Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS

　　Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community

　　Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers

　　Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

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

　　Zurich, ZH, CHE

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Significant architecture/design/implementation experience with distributed applications

　　Significant experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

　　Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

　　History of successful technical and architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises

　　Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.

　　Technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background highly desired

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience working with global Health Care Life Sciences companies or hands on experience with complex cloud migration projects.

　　Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

　　Familiarity with common enterprise services (Directory Services, Information Assurance, Virtual Desktop, etc.), products (i.e., Oracle, SAP) and frameworks (ITIL, Zachman, TOGAF, etc.

　　Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

　　Fluency in German or French

　　Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.