Prototyping Architect, Technology CS - NAMER - PACE

DescriptionThe AWS Prototyping & Cloud Engineering (PACE) team is looking for builders with a passion for architecting solutions that accelerate our customers' ability to innovate on AWS. PACE builds with customers, experimenting quickly with potential concepts that serve as the basis for new products or services running on the AWS cloud. In the best cases, the customer will successfully take the prototype to production. In all cases, our customers will experience what’s possible on AWS and gain the confidence to create a culture of innovation in their own organization.Your role as a prototyping architect involves working with customers to develop prototypes that are foundational to production solutions. Prototyping architects are typically full stack developers who are comfortable operating with multiple languages and frameworks to develop prototypes in emerging technology areas such as AI/ML, compute at the edge, robotics, and spatial computing. You will use a variety of AWS services to rapidly develop the prototypes, leveraging modern application architectural principles. You will gain knowledge in emerging technology and business trends, allowing you to share your insights through publicly shared design patterns, blogs, white papers, and reusable assets (i.e. reusable packaged code).As a member of the core sales team, you will drive revenue growth across a defined set of customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you are responsible for guiding organizations in adopting advanced cloud-based solutions and migrating their workloads to the cloud. You'll be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to build mindshare and increase adoption of AWS. You should be able to interact and communicate effectively with various teams at AWS, including services, marketing, and professional services, while also representing your own team to executive management.In addition, we're looking for these qualities:

At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and be eager to make a big impact.

You stay intellectually curious and continuously develop your technical skills, you can make valuable contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

You have an area of focus where you are a subject matter expert in technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, some facet of big data ecosystem (e.g. Hadoop), or database expertise.

Key job responsibilities

Understand and anticipate our customers business needs and accelerate their ability to innovate by building working prototypes

Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams’ roadmaps

Identify and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community and beyond through industry conferences and events

Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers, tutorials, blogs, etc

Position requires travel generally 25%

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Irvine, CA, USA | Oceanside, CA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USABasic Qualifications

8+ Years as a Solutions Architect / Software Development Engineer OR 12+ years programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C, C# or Python

Experience building large-scale software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end software systems and all points in between

Preferred Qualifications

Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures

Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers

Ability to deliver high quality documents paying attention to detail

Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $122,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.