# Solutions Architect - Public Sector (AWS)

## About the Role

Are you passionate about leveraging technology to transform how governments serve citizens? Join AWS as a Solutions Architect focused on public sector customers, where you'll drive cloud adoption and innovation that creates meaningful impact for communities.

## What You'll Do

**Customer Obsession in Action**
- Partner with public sector organizations to architect cloud solutions that modernize citizen services and government operations
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor, understanding customer challenges and translating business requirements into scalable AWS architectures
- Advocate for customers internally, ensuring their success drives our product and service evolution

**Technical Leadership**
- Design and implement highly available, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures across diverse government use cases
- Collaborate with AWS sales, business development, support, and product teams to accelerate customer adoption
- Provide technical guidance on performance optimization, security best practices, disaster recovery, and data architecture

**Stakeholder Engagement**
- Present to and influence senior government officials, IT leaders, and technical teams
- Build long-term relationships that establish AWS as the preferred cloud partner
- Share customer insights and requirements with AWS service teams to influence product roadmaps

## What We're Looking For

**Technical Expertise**
- Proven experience architecting solutions across multiple platforms and technology domains
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles including security, networking, DevOps, and high availability
- Hands-on experience with performance optimization and system resilience

**Customer-Centric Mindset**
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex customer environments and translate needs into technical solutions
- Experience working with senior stakeholders in customer-facing roles
- Track record of building trust and becoming a go-to technical advisor

**Growth Mindset**
- Intellectual curiosity and passion for continuous learning
- Ability to think differently and respectfully challenge conventional approaches
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

## Why AWS?

Join a team of exceptional technologists who are passionate about innovation and customer success. You'll work on challenging problems that directly impact how governments serve citizens, while having access to the breadth and depth of AWS services to create transformative solutions.

**Our Culture**
- Customer Obsession drives everything we do
- We Earn Trust through transparency and delivering on commitments
- We Think Big about the possibilities technology creates
- We Dive Deep to understand root causes and build lasting solutions

Ready to help shape the future of government technology? We'd love to hear from you.


Key job responsibilities
- Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific business initiatives and projects. You should understand the wider industry, with experience and skill in how applications and services are delivered and consumed.
- Develop a deep expertise in AWS technologies.
- Consult on and provide leadership for the broad AWS cloud strategy in NZ public sector organisations. You will help customers articulate and navigate their cloud journey, and be accountable for ensuring tactical activities and point projects are align with the overall technical strategy.
- Own technical engagements, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value. This is *not* a hands-on delivery role; delivery is typically done by AWS consultants and partners.
- Exhibit leadership within a very sophisticated IT landscape and become the trusted adviser to different stakeholders in the customer’s organisation’s hierarchy. Enable others to become cloud champions!
- Be a thought leader, comfortable with speaking in public. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS architecture community, including authoring or otherwise contributing to AWS customer-facing assets such as whitepapers, blogs, code, and sample architectures.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, engineering teams and support.
- Demonstrate the "art of the possible" using demonstrations and proof-of-concept code.

A day in the life
AWS Global Sales

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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.