As a Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Microsoft on AWS, you will have the opportunity to accelerate our customer's adoption of Microsoft Workloads on AWS. The emphasis is on working directly with customers to develop cloud migration and/or adoption strategies as it relates to their Microsoft systems. Microsoft Specialist Solution Architects at AWS typically do not only work on their customers' Microsoft Migration strategy, they also oversee the overall IT environment and look for options to integrate AWS services including GenAI to optimize business processes.
The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in both Microsoft On-Prem solutions and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills that will enable you to represent AWS well, not only to customers and IT executives but also to the broader Microsoft community including .NET developers, and Infrastructure architects. The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Building on successful migrations, demonstrating experiences and concrete project executions in application modernization would be a plus.
Are you a motivated self-starter with an analytical mind? Do you want to work on the forefront of the latest innovations and technologies? Do you seek the opportunity to work with a diverse set of customers, opportunities and markets as part of a team focused on increasing adoption of Amazon Web Services for Microsoft on AWS? Come build the future with us.
The role is based in Austria, however the role has some flexibility in Central Eastern Europe.
Key job responsibilities
As a Specialist Solution Architect MSFT on AWS, you will be responsible for designing solutions to support customers to bring their Microsoft workloads to AWS. Specialist Solution Architects are deep technical experts in Microsoft technologies who work with customers every day and collect demand signals influencing the AWS product roadmap and strategic partnerships for Microsoft Workloads. You will also identify gaps in AWS products or feature sets based on customer insights and partner with internal product teams and account managers to win strategic customer workloads and Data Center migrations. You will be working closely with Specialist Sales experts to deliver the desired customer outcomes. You will develop thought leadership and assets in the context of the Microsoft Workloads service domain and will be speaking at public events.
A day in the life
The Specialists Team is part of the AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) organization, which 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.
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About the team
The role is part of the Europe Central Specialists team. This team positions AWS as the best place to run crucial workloads such as MSFT, SAP, GenAI and Data. Our team helps customers to adopt AWS cloud capabilities at scale.
The Specialists team includes business development, specialist sales, and specialist solutions architecture experts. You’ll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Vienna, AUT
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience and deep knowledge of Microsoft Infrastructure (.NET software development, Windows infrastructure, and SQL database architecture) and software development experience
- Experience in working backwards with Enterprise customers with highly available fault tolerant systems and experience with Microsoft migrations
- Presentation and communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences in fluent English (German preferred)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Broad experience in Microsoft infrastructure and SQL database architecture, technical pre-sales, technology transformation, enterprise solution blue printing, or Solution Architect experience in the software or cloud industries.
- Experience in cloud based application modernizations
- Experience in writing, publishing technical whitepapers, and evangelizing.
- Previous experience architecting the benefits of cloud for Microsoft workloads.
- Broad experience with the adoption of .NET applications in the cloud, offering guidance on best practices, scalability, and security.
- Bachelor’s degree, certifications, or similar experiences desired.