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Principal Solution Architect

  • Partner to navigate the 200+ services, deploy your solution to the cloud
  • Technologist Evangelist and educator

Role

  • technical leader and a strategic influencer like a CTO
  • architect solutions to significantly complex problems, high ambiguity,
  • leverage technical, industry, and business context expertise (e.g., outcome priorities, customer experience, shared goals, business case) to influence the direction of longer-term business and technology strategies
  • identify both immediate and future risks and constraints
  • advise customers on how to make the right trade-offs in solutions design (e.g., extensibility, flexibility, scalability, maintainability)
  • able to dive deeply into technical details
  • own the design and delivery of a program of customer solutions including the overall strategy and end-to-end architecture. Apply the design principles of security, reliability, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.
  • proactively look for opportunities to scale the solution to benefit other customers with similar problems or requirements
  • lead the curation of thought leadership content and ensure delivered content is relevant to customer needs.

Attitude

  • relentlessly simplify and are able to deconstruct extraordinarily complex problems into their constituent building blocks, accelerating customer adoption and/or enabling teams across the organization to work in parallel on the problem.
  • recognize problems both inside and outside your area, build consensus around a vision, and drive resolution leveraging the right resources

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