Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, HPC

Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, HPC

Job  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end‑to‑end go‑to‑market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together we provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain‑specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert‑level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud‑based systems.

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Are you passionate about cloud computing and its potential to overcome some of the biggest challenges in High Performance Computing (HPC)? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen and strong interpersonal skills? Do you enjoy tackling large analytical problems as massive scale? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect focused on HPC to work with our customers, including physics informed machine learning, CAE, Weather and accelerated computing with GPU to craft cloud‑based solutions.

As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud‑based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind‑share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ideal candidate must be self‑motivated with a proven track record of customer obsession and delivering results.

The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges in HPC.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

• Design Customer Solutions:
  Collaborate with the wider AWS teams to help customers and partners architect HPC solutions that leverage AWS Services.
• Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services, and Partners to define an HPC Engagement strategy for AWS operational territories and key accounts, with emphasis on public sector National Super Computing Centers, Government agencies, and/or AI/ML, CAE, Weather and accelerated computing with GPU.
• Thought Leadership:
  Provide thought leadership on solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Compute Blog, whitepapers and reference architectures, as well as internal training of Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and AWS Trainers.
• Serve as a key member of the business development and accounting management team in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical and business strategies.
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge amongst the worldwide AWS solution architect community.
• Understand AWS market segments, and industry verticals.
• Understand and exploit the use of internal business support systems.

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