Solutions Architect - Public Sector

The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. Partnering with internal teams and leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products youll craft highly-scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers business problems. As part of our team youll have the opportunity to innovate daily and define the future of cloud computing. Come join us in making the impossible possible.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Public Sector team to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS cloud services within our strategic accounts and owning the on-going technical relationship with customers in the Australian Government community.

The AWS Solutions Architecture team works with the Australian Government and AWS partners on architecting innovative solutions for all our stakeholders. Our work can be highly sensitive time critical focusing on strategic and operational outcomes. We are passionate about supporting our Public Sector community and will go the extra mile to ensure we achieve successful outcomes. We are consistently challenged with unique and diverse requirements that require out of the box thinking supported by deep technical knowledge

The broad responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge of how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess communication skills that allow them to represent Amazon well within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior personnel as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business product and technical challenges.

Candidates must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see job responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect youll help your customers plan their successful cloud journey. Youll solve complex technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures. Youll drive technical solutions discussions diving deep into the details with customer teams.

Building relationships to understand our customers and partners is key. As a trusted technical advisor youll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives. Youll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals. Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.

Youll also act as thought leader in the wider community. This includes playing a lead role in educating sharing best practices presenting at events writing white papers blogs and running workshops. You wont just be part of an industry movement; youll be leading it.

As a customer obsessed advisor youll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and service teams.

A day in the life

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This role is within the Public Sector Solutions Architecture team working with public sector customers in the Australian Government National Security and Defence. As a public sector Senior Solution Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS) you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazons services within critical strategic accounts.

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• 7 years of IT development or implementation / consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
• 2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev / ops perspective
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

Acknowledgement of country :

In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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Key Skills

Organizational Management,Presentation Skills,Agile,SAFe,AWS,Solution Architecture,Conflict Management,Data Management,Scrum,Team Management,Pre-sales,Management Consulting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1