Senior Solution Architect, Public Sector (Healthcare & Life Sciences)

DESCRIPTION AWS is where innovation, risks, and ideas are celebrated.
We are builders; we try new things, imagine big dreams and reuse whenever we can.
It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious people to be part of our diverse teams of thinkers, problem solvers, and doers.
Come join us and work with AWS technologies that enable our Public Sector customers and partners to adopt cloud based solutions.
ABOUT THE TEAM This role is within the Australian Public Sector team, working with Healthcare & Life Sciences customers.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) 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 Public Sector Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers solve their most interesting business challenges by rapidly developing innovative prototypes using world-class cloud and open-source technologies.
We've helped customers by using image recognition to find missing persons, Artificial Intelligence to optimise rideshares, and Machine Learning to grade exam answers.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the team.
THE ROLE As a Senior Solutions Architect, you'll help your customers plan their successful cloud journey.
You'll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business.
This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
You'll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.
Building relationships to understand our customers and partners is key.
As a trusted technical advisor, you'll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
You'll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals.
Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.
You'll also act as thought leader in the wider community.
This includes playing a lead role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
You won't just be part of an industry movement; you'll be leading it.
As a customer obsessed advisor, you'll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services.
This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and service teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • Background in any other following or related to Technology Architect, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developer, Engineering Lead, Sales Engineer, Presales Engineer or Systems Engineer, etc.
• Experience and/or deeper understanding in one or more technology areas.
Specific knowledge in multiple technology domain areas (e.g., software development/architecture, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Can create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components.
• Understands and can articulate common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Can take the lead on a complex technical project, which may require the participation of other teams to deliver.
• Able to create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Have experience working within Public Sector and/or the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry.
• Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud • Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS or other cloud technology • One or more AWS certifications, e.g.
AWS Solutions Architect Associate • Able to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications) • 8 years' experience as a Solution Architect or related role.
What if I'm not an expert in all qualifications?
That's okay!
We hire people who have a passion for learning and are curious.
You will be supported in your career development here at AWS.
You will have plenty of opportunities to build your technical, leadership, business and consulting skills.
This includes formal and informal training, a chance to gain AWS certifications and mentorship opportunities.
You will learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today.
CULTURE AND INCLUSION, DIVERSITY & EQUITY At AWS, we don't mind being called "peculiar." We see beauty in simplifying the complex, and we're comfortable being misunderstood for long periods of time.
That might sound unorthodox.
We believe in removing obstacles so builders can build which is why our people enjoy working in AWS.
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.
Amazon values diverse experiences.
Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 start-ups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
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.
Key job responsibilities • Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific business initiatives and projects.
You should understand the wider industry, with experience and skill in how applications and services are delivered and consumed.
• Develop a deep expertise in AWS technologies.
• Consult on and provide leadership for the broad AWS cloud strategy to Healthcare & Life Science Public Sector organisations.
You will help customers articulate and navigate their cloud journey, and be accountable for ensuring tactical activities and point projects are align with the overall technical strategy.
• Own technical engagements, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value.
This is *not* a hands-on delivery role; delivery is typically done by AWS professioanl services and partners.
• Exhibit leadership within a very sophisticated IT landscape and become the trusted adviser to different stakeholders in the customer's organisation's hierarchy.
Enable others to become cloud champions!
• Be a thought leader, comfortable with speaking in public.
Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Contribute and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS architecture community, including authoring or otherwise contributing to AWS customer-facing assets such as whitepapers, blogs, code, and sample architectures.
A day in the life Want to find out what it's like to be a part of the Solution Architect team at AWS?
Watch this video (https://bit.ly/3keYcC9).
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 experience PREFERRED 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 communities Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.
We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement: Amazon 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 attributes.