Digital Sovereignty Specialist Solutions Architect, Sovereign Cloud, Sovereign Cloud

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, capable of addressing advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers facing complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, secure, and resilient technical architectures to address these challenges. This may involve guiding customers as they refactor applications or designing entirely new cloud-based solutions.

Specialist SAs play a critical role in capturing customer feedback, advocating for roadmap enhancements, and anticipating customer requirements by working backwards from their needs. As domain experts, SSAs also participate in field engagement and enablement, producing content such as whitepapers, blogs, and workshops for customers, partners, and the AWS Technical Field.

Key job responsibilities
Digital Sovereignty Specialist Solutions Architects combine technical expertise in digital sovereignty with business acumen and technical sales skills. They focus on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with implementation teams, including AWS Professional Services and Partners.

SSAs are responsible for:

1. Unblocking customers and accelerating their path to production
2. Designing and architecting solutions that address complex digital sovereignty challenges
3. Providing expert guidance on AWS services and best practices related to data protection, privacy, security and compliance
4. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure customer success
5. Contributing to thought leadership through content creation and speaking engagements

Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect offers opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems, collaborate with skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers, and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earth's Best Employer. This role requires a passion for innovation, a customer-centric mindset, and the ability to navigate complex technical and business landscapes.

- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)

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