Are you passionate about helping Enterprise organizations implement cloud computing solutions and tackle complex technical challenges? Do you thrive on leveraging the most advanced cloud technologies? Do you excel at guiding organizations through application architecture and integration strategies, while possessing the consultative skills to drive project success? Is your expertise grounded in security best practices across applications, storage, compute, and networks? Are you excited about joining a solutions architect team that works with the premier technology platform? Would you value being part of a sales organization where your technical expertise shapes planning and strategy? Amazon has made significant investments in developing solutions that maximize the value of storage infrastructure. We're seeking a Solutions Architect for our Storage team who will serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in designing sophisticated customer solutions. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with customers to enable large-scale implementations and accelerate adoption of advanced AWS services. You'll partner with field Solution Architects to provide guidance on customer engagements, while creating white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations that empower customers to fully utilize AWS capabilities. Our Specialist Solutions Architects are recognized as technical experts and visionaries who champion emerging technologies both conceptually and architecturally. They play an instrumental role in advancing cloud computing adoption within the Enterprise space. These individuals think inventively to deliver results and design solutions that are cost-efficient, mission-aligned, and security-focused. As part of our team, you'll employ a customer-centric approach to develop AWS storage solutions and orchestrate the migration of complex workloads to the AWS cloud. Key job responsibilities • Provide subject matter expertise on AWS storage services for our customers, and field organization. • Represent the voice of the customer by bringing customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap. • Provide advanced technical knowledge to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges. • Use your technical depth and business experience to deploy storage and data strategies. • 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 Sales Specialist teams to define the technical components of best in class Go to Market 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 - Experience in a technical role within a sales organization - 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience - 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Knowledge of cloud architecture - Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting - Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud - Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers - Experience working with enterprise scale storage systems - Experience with Block, Object, and File Storage Technologies 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. USA, GA, Atlanta - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually USA, MA, BOSTON - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually USA, NJ, Jersey City - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually