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?

Core to Amazon’s DNA is its methodology around executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest way to prove new ideas, technologies, and business models in a real-world environment. This experimentation fuels Amazon’s innovation. The role of the Prototyping Solutions Architect will apply these methods to assemble and build prototypes with leading customers around the world. You'll work closely with AWS Sales Teams and AWS Service Developers to partner with customers to solve hard problems. AWS is seeking a Senior technical professional with real world expertise and experience to join the AWS Specialist Prototyping team to support our rapidly growing and dynamic business.

Key job responsibilities
+ Work with AWS Prototyping engagement managers, solutions architects, customers, and partners to qualify and scope strategic prototyping use cases

+ Architect, design, develop and build working prototypes with customers

+ Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns from engagements to promote re-use with the worldwide AWS community

+ Share insights and lessons learned with AWS Service teams to contribute to the continual improvement of AWS services based on Customer need

+ Develop and present detailed technical demonstrations and talks to Business and Technical leaders on 1:1 and 1:many/conference type situations

+ Position requires travel - generally around 25%

About the team
The mission of AWS Prototyping is to accelerate customer adoption of AWS, expedite their path to production, and catalyze a culture of innovation.

Prototyping at AWS helps customers envision complex uses of AWS Services by building working prototypes of specific customer use cases, tailored to their data, devices and systems. Prototyping engagements are designed to be innovative and evaluative, demonstrating "the art of the possible" on AWS.