Senior Customer Solution Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a fully remote global cloud native services company, as a Sr. Customer Solutions Architect! Partner with our sales team, leveraging your extensive AWS expertise to advise customers and drive their business forward. You will lead architecture design sessions, author proposals, educate customers on AWS, and contribute to complex pursuits. Mentorship of peers and advancement of team best practices are also key responsibilities. This role requires significant AWS and architecture experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to travel up to 25%. Caylent offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, life insurance, and generous PTO.

Requirements

• 7+ 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
• Superb 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% (conditions permitting)

Responsibilities

• Lead deep dive architecture & design sessions with customers and propose Well-Architected solutions
• 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
• Ability to win significantly complex pursuits and interact with strategic stakeholders
• Provide mentorship to CSA peers, and provide guidance on more complex/strategic pursuits
• Proactively contribute to the advancement of team best practices and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• 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, AWS Specialty Certifications
• Deep domain expertise in Application Development, Data, or DevOps
• Industry vertical expertise (E.g. FinTech, HealthCare, Oil & Gas)

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Generous and flexible PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays