17 Oct
AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93
London
Job description
Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with startups of different stages.
Supporting the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, they work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology.
Solutions Architects also have broader impact at scale, taking a supporting role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.
In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible.
You will have the opportunity to produce cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth.
Every day you will be learning something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.
You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving adoption of AWS technologies while bringing differentiated value to customers.
This is a team dedicated to Startups, a critically important and growing subset of customers for AWS. Startups follow unique technology adoption patterns and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses, so you will be employing engagement strategies and programs tailored to their business needs and technical preferences.
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 AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success.
AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
- As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
- You operate as a trusted advisor for startups. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide. You work backwards from their priorities and find inventive ways to add value with solutions utilizing AWS and its Partners’ technology.
- You capture and share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for AWS. You use your customer understanding to participate in the creation or updates of technical content and reference architectures (e.
g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and cloud architectures. You are a builder with genuine curiosity about how technology can support your customers’ business models and objectives.
You are a lifetime learner that develops areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.
You are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, where you will be positively challenged and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture.
A day in the life
The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. In a typical week you will meet multiple customers and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions.
You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS. Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems.
As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily.
About the team
The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build and scale their businesses.
We’re here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so.
We are a group of technologists with varied backgrounds; from fresh graduates to ex-CTOs, all growing our skills and startup expertise, while working on cutting edge technology use-cases with some of the world’s most innovative companies.
About AWS : Diverse Experiences
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences.
Even if you do not meet all of the 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 startups 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.
When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
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.
Mentorship and 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with building, validating and deploying GenAI models and applications on cloud infrastructure.
- Sound knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, with working knowledge of frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, JAX or MXNet.
- Knowledge of MLOps tools and workflows for model development, validation, and deployment.
- High level of communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on experience benchmarking and optimizing performance of models on accelerated computing (GPU, TPU, AI ASICs) clusters with high-speed networking.
- Experience in developing and deploying large scale machine learning or deep learning models and / or systems into production, including batch and real-time data processing
▶️ GenAI Solutions Architect, Startups Specialists, AWS EMEA
🖊️ AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93
📍 London