Specialist Solution Architect, Developer Transformation

About

Developers and development teams are key influencers who steer organizational adoption of new methodologies, technologies, services and platforms. The mission of the Developer Transformation (DevTx) team is to help developers gain greater familiarity and confidence building modern, cloud-native applications that take full advantage of the latest AI-driven tools and AWS's wide range of services. As a DevTx Solution Architect (SA), you will help customers to innovate and transform their software development practices, applying modern patterns, the latest architectural best practices using the latest AI-native tools for developing and operating full-stack, cloud-native workloads.

Responsibilities

• Be an active member of the AWS Solution Architecture team by engaging in one-to-one and one-to-many application architecture, development workshops and engagements with developers, software engineers, enterprise/solution architects and CTOs
• Accelerating adoption of AWS in the student, startup and professional developer communities by engaging through conferences, startup events, meetups, user groups and hackathons
• Help lead the direction for AWS developer events to make them best-in-class from a developer's perspective, representing AWS through speaking, doing live demos and interacting with attendees
• Creating technical content such as reference applications, starter kits and patterns and practical guidance that will get developers excited about the potential of AWS as a development platform
• Contributing to a library of highly-reusable developer-focused artefacts such as demonstrations, sample code, blog posts, tutorials, and other modes of technical enablement
• Providing end-user feedback to AWS Product Management and Engineering teams based on the developer 'voice of the customer'
• Participate in technical and design discussions with AWS technical teams to help speed customer adoption and ensure best practices during implementation

Requirements

• 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
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
• Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics

Benefits

• Work/Life Balance: flexibility as part of working culture
• Inclusive Team Culture: employee-led affinity groups and diversity conferences (CORE, AmazeCon)
• Mentorship and Career Growth: knowledge-sharing, mentorship and career-advancing resources
• Workplace accommodation or adjustment support during application and hiring process