Sr. Solutions Architect , WWPS HCLS Life Sciences

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we are seeking a Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Solutions Architect to join our HCLS organization within AWS Enterprise engaged this role you will help deliver our strategy for global HCLS customers and partners working alongside some of the worlds largest healthcare and life sciences companies to design cloud architectures that address their industry-specific business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

As a Solutions Architect you will help customers succeed using AWS technologies linking technology with measurable business value for healthcare and life sciences organizations. You will bring technical depth and curiosity with the ability to participate in architecture discussions and clearly communicate the value of the AWS platform to both technical and business audiences.

You will help design scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures assist customers in understanding best practices around cloud-based solutions and support workload migration efforts. You will have the opportunity to build prototypes contribute to cloud-native reference architectures and explore use cases across Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Generative AI Serverless and Container-based architectures Analytics and Security. You will collaborate with account management professional services support product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem to drive AWS adoption within your assigned customers.
Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazons 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
- Work closely with IT and business stakeholders at BioPharma/Biotech and diagnostics organizations to understand their unique requirements and challenges.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the customers business model industry trends and technical landscape.
- Architect and design AI first scalable secure and cost-effective AWS solutions that address the customers specific needs.
- Guide the customer through the cloud migration process ensuring a smooth transition and adoption of AWS services.
- Collaborate with the customers technical teams to implement configure and optimize the AWS infrastructure.
- Build strong technical relationships with customer counterparts to support their cloud adoption journey
- Provide ongoing support and optimization recommendations to maximize the value of the customers AWS investment.
- Share best practices conduct training and enable the customers team to independently manage the AWS environment.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS services features and industry developments to recommend innovative solutions.

A day in the life
Your morning starts with a customer call whiteboarding a cloud migration strategy for a global pharma company. Mid-morning youre building a Generative AI prototype that shows how a life sciences customer could accelerate drug discovery. After lunch you join an architecture review with the account team then lead a hands-on workshop walking a hospital system through HIPAA-compliant deployments on AWS. Between meetings youre sketching a reference architecture for a new ML pipeline trading ideas with fellow SAs in Slack and jotting down notes for a whitepaper. No two days look the same.

About the team
Why AWS
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Diverse Experiences
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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- 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

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of AWS services market segments customer base and industry verticals
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA San Francisco - 176600.00 - 239000.00 USD annually

Required Experience:

Senior IC