Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big and innovative things? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work in a variety of business environments, and high impact projects that use the newest cloud infrastructure and platform technologies?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

We are looking for highly talented hands-on technical consulting architects who can lead complex projects to help our customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s amazing technical teams. You will be working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

Our consultants will collaborate with customers and partners on key engagements. You will work with the entire AWS organization to deliver proof-of-concept projects, perform enterprise portfolio assessments, review operational best practices, and conduct skills transfer workshops in areas such as, migrations, applications, operations, archiving, disaster recovery, and IT transformation.

This is a customer facing role. You could be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

Work with customers and partners to understand their business target outcomes and use your business and technical skills to design and build architecture solutions, which is catalyst for the cloud journey. You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
Collaborate across the entire AWS organization to develop trusted strategic relationships with customer key stakeholders.
You will own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
You will work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring there is a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives.
Work with AWS engineering teams to convey partner and enterprise customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
Collaborate with AWS field sales, technical sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS platform services.
Travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed

A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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 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 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.

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.

About the team
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.