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Description

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing business in France. You will join a friendly and supportive team, working together to bring the latest in disruptive cloud computing technologies, comprising latest developments in artificial intelligence. Our teams help customers build a deeper understanding of hyper-scale cloud technology and application architectures, and they have the consultative and leadership skills required to drive and deliver successful outcomes.

Key job responsibilities

As an AWS Senior Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.

Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS services and features. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

A day in the life

As a Senior Solutions Architect you are part of an account team consisting of Account Managers and other Solutions Architects. You occasionally work with other teams, for example Service Teams, Professional Services, Support team, Public Policy, Marketing.

Your customers will be Public Sector customers and partners. Some customers are already experienced in the usage of cloud services and are expecting advices to transform, accelerate and innovate, others are at the beginning of their cloud journey and need solid foundations to start trusting the techology.

You have regular opportunities to learn about new services and solutions, new ways to deliver to customers, or develop your skills through internal and external events, or hands-on workshops. You will develop areas of depth where you have deeper knowledge of technologies or industries, with opportunities to help other customers and other teams.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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

Courbevoie, FRA

Basic Qualifications

• Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps.

• Have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with business-fluent French and English

• A passion for technology and for learning.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are desired but not required:

• Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud.

• Working knowledge of cloud native architectures.

• Experience working in a customer-facing role.

• Experience working in or with the Public sector (central and local government, national security and defense)

• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification.

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