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Solutions Architect, AWS Industries, Energy & Utilities

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2 days ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$154k - $208k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical relationship with enterprise Energy and Oil & Gas customers.
  • Design and recommend AWS architectures addressing security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency, and best practices.
  • Lead architecture reviews, discovery sessions, technical discussions, cloud modernization initiatives, and Well-Architected reviews.
  • Build generative AI demonstrations using RAG architecture for industry use cases.
  • Create and share reference architectures, white papers, code samples, blog posts, workshops, and other technical content.
  • Educate customers and the broader community about AWS technologies through presentations, user groups, meetups, videos, and conferences.
  • Advocate for customer needs internally and help inform the AWS product and service roadmap.
  • Collaborate with AWS product, marketing, professional services, account, and specialist teams.
  • Help hire, coach, and mentor other Solutions Architects and participate in hiring debriefs.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
  • 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, or consulting on applications and infrastructures.
  • 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or Internet industries.
  • Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders or clients.
  • Experience presenting and speaking with executives, IT professionals, management, and developers.
  • Experience architecting and operating in large enterprise IT environments, including identity management, authentication frameworks, SOPs, ITSM, change management, and enterprise security controls.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
  • Preferred: experience with software development tools and methodologies and with enterprise cloud or virtualization solutions.
  • Preferred: experience with data and AI technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, databases, or storage.
  • Preferred: experience designing industrial IoT architectures involving sensor networks, telemetry, equipment monitoring, and legacy operational system integrations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon package.
  • AWS offers mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career development resources, inclusion programs, and work-life flexibility.
  • The position is based in Houston, Texas, and includes customer site visits as part of the representative work week.

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