Solutions Architect, EU Public Sector in Brussels, Belgium

Description

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

AWS is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing business as part of our EU public sector team based in Brussels, Belgium. Are you a passionate technologist who enjoys working with public sector customers and who can influence and drive innovation using cutting-edge technology? You will join a friendly and supportive team, serving the unique needs of our European Union Institutions and Agencies customers.

As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.

Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services.

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement or document cloud-native reference architectures with the AWS Solutions Architect community.

You will participate in the creation and sharing of recommended practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

We seek candidates from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific business initiatives and projects. You should understand the wider industry, with experience and skill in how applications and services are delivered and consumed.

• Develop a deep expertise in AWS technologies.

• Consult on and provide leadership for the broad AWS cloud strategy in EU public sector organisations. You will help customers articulate and navigate their cloud journey, and be accountable for ensuring tactical activities and point projects are align with the overall technical strategy.

• Exhibit leadership within a very sophisticated IT landscape and become the trusted adviser to different stakeholders in the customer’s organisation’s hierarchy. Enable others to become cloud champions!

• Be a thought leader, comfortable with speaking in public. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.

• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS architecture community, including authoring or otherwise contributing to AWS customer-facing assets such as whitepapers, blogs, code, and sample architectures.

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, engineering teams and support.

• Demonstrate the “art of the possible” using demonstrations and proof-of-concept code.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing, data engineering, and enterprise architecture principles.

• Strong background in delivering complex, mission-critical technology solutions.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS core services, especially in designing scalable and highly available solutions.

• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking.

• Experience working Container Orchestration technologies as well as CI/ CD tools, practices.

• Experience with applications modernization.

• Experience working with European public sector organisations, regulations, and procurement processes.

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