Senior Solutions Engineer, Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) (AWS)

Do you have a builder’s mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”? Are you passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate the technical feasibility of solutions? As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

As a prototype developer, you will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains across a range of industry verticals like automotive, energy, health care, telco, manufacturing and media and entertainment. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role.

Here are some qualities we are looking for:

• Have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers which are primarily large enterprises.
• The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect.
• You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones.
• You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
• As a technical leader, you combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability (i.e. comfortable on the white-board and also on the keyboard).
• You will engage often in early stages of customer use-cases and also in competitive situations.
• Being able to deal with ambiguity, good communication and being hands-on are important qualities - you will often be the lead technical person in the room and you will be collaborating with other senior leaders from technical and business domains.
• Push the technical bar. You will have appetite and take the initiative to learn new topics and experiment, covering domains such as AI/ML, agentic design, serverless and IoT in an enterprise context.
• Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities:

• Engage with customers on a specific use case to determine desired outcomes, define a scope and design and implement it (code, CDK, docs) with a small team of developers in 6 weeks.
• Identify opportunities to scale your impact through internal and external facing initiatives.
• Mentor others.

A day in the life:

While on a customer prototype engagement, you will work collaboratively with other developers, Customer Success Manager and specialists to deliver results. The small team working on the prototype will change from project to project based on availability, specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members come from across the US and EMEA. Larger team meetings occur periodically to share knowledge and get updates on goals, etc.

AWS values diverse experiences. 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 Culture:

Here 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 Growth:

We’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 Balance:

We 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.

About the team:

As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

Basic Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.
• Experience working with end user or developer communities.
• Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private.
• Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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