Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services

Job title: Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services

Company: Amazon

Job description: DESCRIPTIONImagine being a part of a team where your ideas have the potential to change companies, reshape industries, and improve the lives of many. Picture working with cutting-edge technology, the most dynamic businesses in Financial Services industry, and a talented & inclusive team. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-10 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Web Services where you can have fun while making history. Come and help build the future with us as a Solutions Architect.As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, sales, and several other teams to craft highly flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of services. In collaboration with sales, you will help drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced-based solutions. You will seek out opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broaden the use of the platform across customer organizations. You will utilize your ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.As an Senior Solutions Architect you are joining a team that invests in your success by providing comprehensive learning and mentorship programs. The FSI (Financial Services and Insurance) Solutions Architecture team provides an opportunity to work in an open environment that includes self-paced learning, instructor-led training, hands-on projects, and job shadowing opportunities to develop your knowledge of the ecosystem of services and solutions. You will bring a curious mind, a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to understand how technology works. By working backwards from defined customer outcomes, you will achieve results that delight customers. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to long-term customer success.Key job responsibilities
– Build deep relationships with customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads that support their digital transformation and journey to the cloud– Support achievement of revenue objectives through the adoption and migration of applications, software, and services onto the platform in partnership with the sales team– Educate customers on the value proposition of cloud and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment– Contribute to internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge– Act as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support to address customer needsA day in the life
A day in the life
The Senior Solutions Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders to gather comprehensive business and technical requirements. They will design innovative cloud-based solutions, create detailed proofs of concept, and deliver compelling demos to articulate the value proposition to technical and non-technical audiences.Key activities include leading architecture workshops, propose solutions, documenting solution designs, conducting demos, providing guidance on cloud best practices, and contribute to internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledgeAbout the team
About the team
The SA Commercial team is located across Canada (major cities; Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal) and supports clients in the enterprise, independent software vendors (ISV), financial services, small medium business and greenfield sectors leverage their potential with AWS.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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS– 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
– 3+ 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 experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS– 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
– Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
– Experience working with end user or developer communitiesAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:13:07 GMT

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