Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Connect, EMEA Specialist Solutions Architect TeamDESCRIPTION
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.
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. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!
Key job responsibilities Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers' most challenging business problems.Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer's technical objectives.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. Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams. Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.About the team
The Amazon Connect Specialist Team is made up of deep Customer Experience and Enterprise Contact Center domain experts who work directly with our customers to solve their most complex challenges. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams, strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience5+ years of experience in Contact Center Technologies/CCaaS, or building integrations across WFM, CRM and other contact centre solutions or experience with communications protocols and APIs such as WebRTC and SIP5+ years management of technical, customer facing resourcesPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Amazon Connect Experience, Amazon Connect Certification/BadgesHistory of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprisesExperience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloudFamiliarity with common enterprise services and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologiesStrong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developersExperience working within software development or Internet-related industriesAWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertiseComputer Science/relevant degree and/or experience highly desiredAmazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
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