Partner Solution Architect (Hamburg - flexible location)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you like helping partners solve tough technical problems? Would you like to help some of the best known Systems Integrators in the world utilize cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping companies understand application architectures and integration approaches? Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services as the leading cloud computing platform?

As an Partner 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 Amazon's utility computing web services (Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS and Amazon CloudFront). Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement with the partners.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in software architecture and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills at all levels of a partner organization. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a strategic member of the AWS Partner Soultions Architect team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our Partners. This includes:

· Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful partner engagements worldwide.
· Assist with the definition of technical strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offering on the AWS platform.
· Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solution Architect community
· Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· The right person will possess significant hands on implementation or consulting experience and demonstrate a strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
· The successful candidate will have spent several years of their career in customer facing roles and a proven record of effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and interactions with partner and customers.
· Experience working with end user or developer communities.
· Strong verbal and written communications skills in English/German are a must.
· BA/BS degree required; Computer Science, Math or Technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree a plus
· Some travel may be required