Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs). As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

As an Specialist Solutions Architect you will work directly with AWS customers to design cloud-based solutions using Amazon Redshift. You will get a chance to work with some of the most prominent startups, as well as some of the largest enterprises, to help them architect scalable Redshift solutions. You will be able to dive deep into the details of customer problems, work with the internal AWS service teams, to create solutions that solve customer needs. You will partner with AWS sales, business development, solutions architecture, and product teams to develop the internal expertise needed to grow Redshift-related revenue.

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre­-sales, training and support teams to help customers learn about and use Redshift.
- Provide definitive guidance for customers in using Redshift.
- Be a trusted collaborator for the Redshift service team as the voice of the customer for defining and prioritizing service features.
- Lead enablement by training Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, and Technical Account Managers.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge with customers and the worldwide AWS solutions architect community.
- Contribute to the AWS Analytics Blog, service documentation, and reference architectures.
- Present at industry events to educate customers and evangelize AWS and Redshift.

About the team
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 Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) works backwards from customers to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses, and pride themselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

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