• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Demonstrable experience of leading complex (cloud) transformation projects, acting as Lead Architect, Cloud Architect, Head of Technology, or similar.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must (Hebrew & English)
• Understands common architectural patterns and design principles, can explain them, and apply them.

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.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, architects and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS you will work directly with customers. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to work backwards from these customers' needs and help them gain competitive edge using AWS. As an experienced technologist and key member of the Account team you will help influence customers' architectural choices across broad use cases involving security, compute, storage networking as well as advanced scenarios involving serverless, analytics, and AI/ML.

As a part of the role, you will provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community. You will also gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

Key job responsibilities

• As a key member of the SA team, ensure success in designing, building and modernizing applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
• Provide architectural guidance and recommendations on running applications efficiently and reliably on AWS platform.
• Demonstrated communication skills and ability to convey complex ideas to a non-technical audience with an ability to connect technology with measurable business value.
• Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while crafting solutions that are designed for deployment in the cloud.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs, white papers, and proof of concepts.
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS cloud.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute strategies to achieve business outcomes through the adoption of the AWS platform.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share leading practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.

A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to help SMB customers accelerate their cloud implementation to modernize their business on AWS. Working with these customers, you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, security, and more using both native and partner solutions. Our teams focus on understanding customer key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical recommendation to the customer with a goal of designing a robust cloud architecture that can scale as their business requires.

About the team
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 Amaze Con (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.

Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near our TLV Amazon offices.

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience in multiple technology domain areas (e.g., software development, systems engineering, AI/ML, data & analytics).
• Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Demonstrated thought leadership through public speaking and / or publications