Solution Architect

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Financial Services team is looking for an insurance industry solutions architect to join our fast-paced team and help drive worldwide AWS adoption in life and non-life insurance.

Working on hard problems and delivering highly secure, easy-to-operate, and well-architected solutions requires a dedicated team. The insurance solutions architects will demonstrate the art of the possible to our insurance customers and to help them accelerate their cloud journey.

You will be responsible for designing, building and owning enterprise-grade solution accelerators that facilitate business processes in life and non-life insurance, including processes for carriers, reinsurers, brokers and other larger intermediaries. Your repeatable accelerators will be shared globally via AWS sponsored events, online, and directly with insurance customers and partners.

The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect or developer within an insurance company or with industry-specific solution vendors or system integrators. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise. They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud devops.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• Serve as a key member of the Worldwide Insurance team in helping to identify use cases that are important to our insurance customers
• Research, define, and develop solutions accelerators and other assets that can help speed our insurance customers and partners in their efforts to develop innovative cloud-based solutions
• Coach field teams on the best use of the assets in their customer and partner initiatives
• Understand the unique technical requirements of insurance customers, and work closely with internal engineering teams to make best use of their services in the insurance industry assets, and to provide feedback on how to enhance services to better address customer requirements
• Prepare and present technical reviews on the state of the insurance assets, and business reviews on the use of those assets by customers and partners.
• Travel may be required for this role, up to 30%

A day in the life
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5+ years of technology/software sales experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually