Description

At Amazon, we are continuously striving to be the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS have been helping over one million customers, from Airbnb to GE, to deliver flexibility, scalability and reliability across their organisations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented, bright and driven individuals who work hard, have fun and make history.

As a 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 services (like Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS, etc) within strategic accounts across the Nordics.

Your 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 know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will posses customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business, product, and technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Run technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions

• Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud

• Work with other AWS teams to drive adoption and revenue

• Capture and share knowledge with our broader Solution Architect community

• Develop technical content (such as blog-posts, white papers and reference architectures) to convey best practices using AWS

• Participate in evangelizing AWS at events, user groups, and hackathons

• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS”

Come build the future with us.

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Helsinki, FIN

Basic Qualifications

• The right person will be highly technical and analytical, possess several years of implementation/consulting experience

• Experience working within the software development or Internet industries is highly desired.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical degree preferred

• Computer Science or Maths background highly desired

• Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies highly desired

• AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.