Principal Solutions Architect, Hitech/Semicon
at Amazon
Posted 9 hours ago
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- Compensation
- $210,200 – $284,300 USD
- City
- San Francisco
- Country
- United States
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As the Domain SA for Electronics and Semiconductor within the AWS Solutions & GTM Programs Group (SGP), you will define and lead the technical and thought leadership deliverables that drive AWS adoption across the Electronics and Semiconductor industries. You will develop clear reference architectures, solutions, and GTM assets, and act as a technical thought leader at customer and partner events. You will work with field sales teams to identify customer use cases, validate technical feasibility, and enable the AWS field on solutions, driving repeatable, well-architected designs. You will influence service roadmaps based on customer needs and represent AWS at industry consortia and public events.
You will have depth in the HiTech (Electronics and Semiconductor) industry, be a hands-on, and lead by example. You will have the opportunity to shape and deliver on a solution strategy, building mind share, accelerating customer adoption, and driving broad usage of AWS services across the industry. Deliverables will include reference architectures, technical guides, white papers, blog posts, sample code, and webinars. You will be a technical thought leader as well, representing AWS at events in front of customers and partners. You will work closely with field sales teams and specialists to support solution opportunities, as well as help develop solution competence and capabilities within technical teams across the Electronics and Semiconductor community.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop technical solutions strategies and plans. You will be a key technical contributor to meeting revenue and performance goals for Electronics and Semiconductor solutions
• Engage customers, account teams, industry SAs, and technical Field to develop/validate customer solution needs
• Be a key technical contributor to Electronics and Semiconductor solution needs prioritization, and validate technical feasibility of solution responses
• Drive development of ‘well-architected’ solution guidance for all priority customer use cases
• Drive development of technical GTM (go-to-market) assets to support the technical field in solution opportunities
• Be a key technical contributor to the solution and development process, including developing ‘well-architected’ reference designs and sizing
• Enable and train the AWS field teams on solutions, as well a drive ongoing awareness, adoption, use, and increase solution maturity
• Proactively engage customers, account SAs, industry SAs to win solution POCs/POVs at early lighthouse customers, and develop solution references. Provide ongoing reactive support on solution opportunities as required
• Engage with influencers, analysts, media to educate them on the AWS solutions story in Electronics and Semiconductor. Speak at public facing events, as required.
• Represent AWS at Electronics and Semiconductor consortia/standards/regulatory bodies to identify needs and influence solution standards
• Responsible for closed loop feedback to the AWS service teams. Influence AWS services/roadmap based on solution needs and learnings
About the team
The SGP team’s charter is to develop easy-to-use, repeatable, scalable solutions and go-to-market programs. We leverage our domain expertise to work backwards from the needs of our customers, and we invent on their behalf. Solutions integrate AWS services, best practices, common industry requirements, capabilities, and partners. Solutions are purpose-built to address priority customer use cases — and the innovation, modernization, and transformational business outcomes customers seek. When using AWS solutions and programs, customers achieve outcomes measurably faster, with lower effort and risk.
Candidates should have technical knowledge of enterprise IT and use-cases specific to the Electronics and Semiconductor industry, which includes compute requirements, tiered storage architectures, third party software licensing, desktop virtualization, network security, etc., with the ability to go deep on technical aspects to understand current and future customer needs and present AWS technical benefits. The right person will be highly technical and analytical, and will be capable of understanding the complexities of large, global IT environments. You will have excellent presentation skills, including formal presentations, whiteboarding, and be able to present to large and small groups, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations, including strategic partners and ISVs.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree- 8+ years in senior technical customer facing roles in HiTech/Electronics/Semiconductor
- Practical experience designing and implementing solutions at scale
- Technical knowledge of engineering, CAD, CAE, or related IT infrastructure including: compute requirements, job schedulers, tiered storage, license management
- Understanding of the Hitech/Electronics/Semiconductor supply chain (e.g., EDA tool providers, foundries, contract manufacturing, ODMs and OEMs, IP providers, industry trends)
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across the world, engaging with internal and external organizations, customers, system integrators, and ISVs
- Programming/coding experience in Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML, or similar.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients- Technical Computer Science background, and/or Engineering/Math background
- AWS SA Professional Certification
- International Hitech/Electronics/Semiconductor experience and knowledge
- Passion for cloud technologies; understanding of public and hybrid cloud platforms
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USA, CA, San Francisco - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually

