Sr. Cloud Technical Account Manager - Financial Services, ES - SI - Financial Services

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help Global Financial Services customers across capital markets insurance and banking and payments gain the best value and service from AWS? At AWS Enterprise Support we're looking for a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to support our customers' creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies including Compute Storage Database Big Data Application-level services Networking Serverless and more. This is not a sales role but rather an opportunity to be the principal technical advisor and 'voice of the customer' to some of the world's largest financial services organizations.

The TAM role is not directly hands on keyboard within the customer's environment for troubleshooting customer support issues rather you will work with appropriate engineers and service teams to see issues through to resolution. More importantly you will work proactively as part of the AWS Unified Operations (UOps) delivery model to help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services including EC2 S3 DynamoDB & RDS databases Lambda CloudFront CDN IoT and many more.

Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents trade-offs regulatory requirements support and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy through application-specific reviews proactive monitoring and custom runbooks. You will use generative AI tools fluently in your own work to accelerate troubleshooting operational reviews and customer insights and guide customers on adopting AWS generative AI services to modernize and streamline their operations. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.

The TAM is the centerpiece of value to our Enterprise Support customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation come join us!

Key job responsibilities

• The TAM role is not directly hands on keyboard within the customer's environment for troubleshooting customer support issues rather you will work with appropriate engineers and service teams to see issues through to resolution.
• Work proactively as part of the AWS Unified Operations (UOps) delivery model to help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services including EC2 S3 DynamoDB & RDS databases Lambda CloudFront CDN IoT and many more.
• Effectively represent AWS within a customer's environment leveraging your technical acumen and customer-facing skills.
• Drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents trade-offs regulatory requirements support and risk management.
• Proactively keep customers' AWS environments operationally healthy through application-specific reviews proactive monitoring and custom runbooks.
• Use generative AI tools fluently to accelerate troubleshooting operational reviews and customer guidance and help customers adopt AWS generative AI services to modernize their operations.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience
• 5+ years of technical engineering experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline, and 7+ years of equivalent work experience or 9+ years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
• Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
• Experience (3+ years) in the Financial Services industry
• 7+ years of experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for four (4) of the following: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN / Databases / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security / Applications Development in a distributed systems environment
• Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience as a technical lead
• Professional oral and written communication skills, presenting to an audience containing one or more executive team member(s)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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