Solutions Architect Financial Services, AWS Global Sales, Financial Services

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

AWS is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to provide expert guidance to our Financial Services customers. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping Financial Services organizations optimize their adoption and leverage of AWS technologies.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in the Financial Services industry or similar regulated industries, working knowledge of Financial Services applications and infrastructure, and a strong understanding of how cloud services can empower customers to modernise their applications, migrate their data centers to AWS, and Accelerate the development of innovative industry solutions.

As a Solutions Architect, you will leverage your domain expertise to architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions that address the unique needs of Financial Services organisations. You will collaborate closely with customers to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, and compliance constraints, and then recommend the optimal AWS services and best practices to meet their goals. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect who is passionate about driving cloud transformation in the Financial Services sector.

Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement:

Build strategic relationships with Financial Services customers
Understand their business challenges, technical needs, and compliance requirements
Deliver consultative guidance for cloud transformation initiatives

Technical Leadership:
Guide optimal adoption of AWS services
Design solutions for application modernization and cloud migration
Architect secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions
Lead implementation of industry-specific innovations

Solution Design & Implementation:
Partner across teams to design and optimize cloud infrastructure
Ensure solutions align with Financial Services compliance requirements
Drive best practices in security, reliability, and performance

Business Enablement
Help customers maximize AWS platform capabilities
Align technical solutions with business objectives
Enable successful cloud adoption through proven methodologies

Technical Excellence:
Maintain expertise in latest AWS services and features
Share knowledge and insights across customer organizations
Contribute to AWS Financial Services industry solutions



A day in the life
AWS AGS 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.

As a Solutions Architect, you will manage your time to support our customers and account teams with your detailed understanding of AWS Services. Where a customer's need is not your forte, you will reach out to SMEs via AWS internal mechanisms while retaining ownership of the customer's inquiry. As a Solution Architect, you will go beyond the technical solution architecture and work with the account teams, specialists and partners to deliver a practical solution that will accelerate the customers business outcome. Having successfully delivered for our customers you will scale your impact through your Thought Leadership and having gleaned customer signals and feedback to improve our services you will work with the Service teams to make AWS products and services better then they are today. You will also contribute to uplifting your knowledge through AWS' broad catalogue of accreditation and education opportunities.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 with AI/ML technologies
- Experience working with data and analytics

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.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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