Amazon

Senior Storage Specialist Solution Architect , GFS Specialist Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon$169K — $228K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting for applications and infrastructures.
  • 8+ years of expertise in specific technology domains such as cloud computing, systems engineering, or infrastructure.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
  • Knowledge of cloud architecture is preferred.
  • Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with compute and storage server architecture for large-scale applications.
  • Demonstrated experience in architecting and migrating customer workloads to the cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for customers and account teams.
  • Gather customer feedback to influence product features and roadmap development.
  • Provide advanced technical knowledge to solve complex business challenges for customers.
  • Design and deploy effective storage and data strategies.
  • Share best practices through AWS blogs, whitepapers, and speaking engagements.
  • Collaborate with Sales Specialist teams to develop top-tier Go to Market strategies.
  • Support the creation of enablement materials for wider adoption of AWS solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and prescription).
  • 401(k) matching to support retirement savings.
  • Paid time off to ensure work-life balance.
  • Parental leave for family support.
  • Mental health support and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare expenses.
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
Full Job Description
Amazon Web Services is seeking a Storage Specialist Solutions Architect to join our Global Financial Services (GFS) Specialist team. In this role, you will work with customers, introduce new technologies, and adopt new solutions. In addition, you will be responsible for running technical go-to-market initiatives, surfacing customers insights to the product teams, and providing thought leadership to customers and partners.

We're seeking a Storage Solutions Architect for our GFS Specialists 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.

Key job responsibilities
• Be a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for our Account teams and customers.
• 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 unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges.
• You will have the 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

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

- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

- 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 in compute and storage server architecture and design for large scale applications

- Experience with distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing

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

- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

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, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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