DescriptionAre you a passionate builder with a keen interest in solutions for the Media & Entertainment (M&E), Games, and Sports industries? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an exciting opportunity for you. We're seeking an experienced and motivated technologist with a passion for creating strategies, best practices, and solving complex business challenges with an emphasis on content production and media supply chain workflows.As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS, you'll be responsible for educating customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the M&E, Games, and Sports industries. You get to work with various television, film, and visual effects (VFX) studios to help them build better content production workflows utilizing the AWS cloud. You'll provide hands-on architectural guidance for real-life customer projects involving various AWS services and Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions.In this role, you'll be a content creator, a storyteller, and a presenter through building and publishing content. You'll work with customers remotely and in person, sharing your expertise and insights. Must be open to travel at least 20%.About AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.Key job responsibilitiesYou'll anticipate future trends and identify applications of emerging technologies formulating a strategy for theadoption of Streaming Media, Broadcast, Production, Post-Production, Personalization, Analytics, AI/ML, and Supply Chain tools within the M&E vertical.* Architect and deliver innovative, customer-obsessed solutions leveraging AWS services and partner offerings.* Foster strategic partnerships with key industry players, driving thought leadership and shape industry trends.* Create high-quality content, including solution guidance, blogs, demos, code samples, and presentations.* Engage with customers and partners at industry events to inspire and educate them on the transformative potential of AWS solutions.* Deliver written and spoken communications on complex content production and media supply chain subjects, establishing AWS as the public cloud of choice for organizations in the media & entertainment, game, and sports industry looking to accelerate innovation.* Provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to builder considering or already using AWS.* Be able to develop proof-of-concepts for Media applications.Basic Qualifications- 7+ 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 experiencePreferred Qualifications- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS- Intermediate or advanced hands-on knowledge of AWS services.- Prior experience in a technical role within a sales organization.- Prior experience working with television, film, or VFX studios.- Experience with creative applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid, Maya, Nuke.- Experience with high-performance storage solutions used in creative workflows such as Isilon, NetApp, Qumulo, StorNext.- Understanding of the Content Production, Post-Production and Media Supply Chain partner landscape.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit mazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit boutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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