AWS Solutions Architect – Cloud Strategy & Engagement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solution Architect in Milan, on-site, to help shape and deliver strategies for customer success across Italy.

You will own engagements, design cloud solutions, and advise developers and architects on AWS services, including Bedrock, SageMaker, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, and SQS. The role emphasizes deep technical discussions and outbound evangelism with senior technical stakeholders.

Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers, drive AWS adoption and revenue. Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS. Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates. Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the AWS platform. Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, etc. Present sessions at AWS and industry conferences. Technical liaison between customers, service engineering & support teams. Serve as a key member of the sales team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform. Scope each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria. Own each engagement, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS SA community. Extensive design/implementation/consulting/devops experience with distributed applications. Extensive experience in infrastructure or software architecture, with knowledge in databases and networking. Experience in pre-sales engineering or solutions architecture for technology/software sales Ability to travel, including internationally. Fluency in Italian and English is essential, knowledge of other European languages is advantageous Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. AWS Certifications