• Significant hands-on implementation or consulting experience and strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Several years of experience in customer facing roles with a proven record of effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and interactions with partner and customers.
• Strong communications skills (English and ideally Finnish).
• BA/BS degree required
• Limited travel in the Nordics (up to 40%)

Do you like helping partners solve tough technical problems? Would you like to help some of the best known Systems Integrators in the world utilize cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping companies understand application architectures and integration approaches? Do you want to be part of the partner solutions architects team helping to establish Amazon Web Services as the leading cloud computing platform?

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.

As a Partner Solutions Architect within SMGS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services across the partner community. Your broad responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement with strategic partners. Working backwards from customer business challenges, you will define partner technical enablement strategies which enable our customers and partners to become more successful on AWS.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skills in software architecture and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills at all levels of a partner organization. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Key job responsibilities
As a strategic member of the AWS Partner Solutions Architects team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our managed systems integrators. This includes:

• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful partner engagements worldwide.
• Assist solution providers with the definition of technical strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offering on the AWS platform.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solution Architecture community
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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
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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.

• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
• AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Past experience writing and publishing technical whitepapers desirable.
• Experience working with technical communities and technical decision makers.
• Computer Science, Math or Technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree a plus

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