Description

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, accelerated compute background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers developing advanced large language models, complex quantitative trading algorithms, or ML enhanced scientific compute? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Core Services and Advanced Compute team as a GTM Specialist Solutions Architect!

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.

You will work with our most advanced and innovative customers that implement large language models, quantitative trading algorithms, and advanced scientific compute software on our accelerated compute instances to help them get the best price/performance, and scale-out possible. You will work directly with software vendors that deliver. these type of algorithms to support them deliver their software better on AWS to their customers. You will create the AWS reference architectures that our customers use to implement their projects. You will work directly with our services teams, our partners (like ARM and NVIDIA), and Annapurna Labs to make sure AWS is the best place to run these advanced workloads for our customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and central teams to bring customer feedback to product teams for our accelerated instances (like P5, Trn2, Inf2, ...). Lead curation of custom feature and availability requests for unique customer use cases.

• Provide advanced technical knowledge to your customers and aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.

• Collaborate with your GTM colleagues to provide technical insights into GTM strategy and support field marketing to execute local technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements.

• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.

• Guide and Support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your customers. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate new AWS solutions into customer architectures.

A day in the life

Diverse Experiences

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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

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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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

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Go-To-Market (GTM) Specialist team, where you will lead GTM strategy for AWS’ Accelerated Compute Solutions for Customers in the UK and EME. We create sales plays, leverage partners, and build new initiatives that drive results for our customers. We provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap, and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers’ goals. In emerging areas, we play a critical role as the “first in” teams to build markets for new services, domains, or solutions. When a customer needs to innovate and requires a new way to leverage AWS, they count on us to innovate with them to build and deliver what they need.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

• Experience implementing large scale/scale-out ML, LLMs, quantitative algorithms, or scientific compute in the cloud or on-prem.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using PyTorch, Tensorflow, JaX, CUDA, NeMo

• Experience with MPI, NVLink, Infiniband

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