Principal Customer Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Principal Customer Solutions Architect and partner with our sales team to determine and communicate solutions to customers' goals.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating solutions on AWS
• 10+ years of experience with infrastructure, application, database, and/or networking architecture
• Ability to assess and align business and technical strategy with customer needs
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Super presentation & workshop leadership skills, ability to tailor conversations to technical SMEs through executive leadership audiences
• Expert understanding of cloud-native patterns and Well-Architected best practices
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Responsibilities

• Lead deep dive discovery, architecture, and design sessions with strategic and enterprise customers and propose Well-Architected solutions
• Act as a trusted strategic advisor for executive customer stakeholders and align technical solutions to business goals
• Author proposals and statements of work that capture customer requirements & constraints and ensure successful project outcomes
• Educate customers & evangelize AWS through blogs, white papers, webinars, presentations, and direct customer engagement
• Win significantly complex pursuits and interact with strategic stakeholders
• Provide mentorship to CSA peers, and provide guidance on more complex/strategic pursuits and career growth
• Proactively contribute to the advancement of team best practices and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep domain expertise in Application Development, Data, AI, or DevOps
• Industry vertical expertise (e.g. FinTech, HealthCare, Oil & Gas)
• Experience with highly-available, fault-tolerant architectures
• Experience with IT compliance frameworks and requirements (e.g. PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, security)
• Previous experience in pre-sales or equivalent company-internal strategic roadmap influence
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS DevOps Professional, one or more AWS Specialty Certifications

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Company stock option plan
• Company issued laptop
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 10 Paid Holidays