Position Summary
Effectual Solution Architects (SAs) are members of the Sales and Business Development team. They ensure that customers have a clear understanding of the technical aspects of Effectual services and that internal delivery teams are provided clear input on project expectations and deliverables. Effectual SAs are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived cloud solutions to customers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- You will work directly with company leadership and report to the Field CTO
- Work directly with the Sales organization to engage with customers for technical problem definition and context.
- Analyze current technologies used internally and in the cloud marketplace to determine solutions.
- Work across the SA team to recommend and create tools to ensure necessary contributions from multiple departments
- Project definition in parallel to opportunity research
- Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed projects
- Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions
- Work with internal delivery professionals within the company to ensure products and service expertise are aligned with the project need
- Define clear goals for technical aspects of a project and ensure communication for their proper execution
- Support the migration of customers from on-premises environments to AWS through:
- Develop migration plans
- Provide recommendations and context for specific end-state design decisions
- Confirm details of the architecture, design, dependencies, project plan and actions with the delivery team and customer.
- Use tools to support assumptions in migration design including:
- RV tools, Clumio, VMware HCX, Veeam, AWS CloudEndure, etc.
- You communicate working preferences and understanding the working preferences of others to help develop a high-performing team that operates with respect and effectiveness
Qualifications
- Minimum of bachelor's degree in an Engineering field like computer engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science, or other relevant field.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and latest cloud tools
- Experience deploying and managing IT and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with best practices regarding data strategies, application development, and security principles
- Hands-on experience with software architecture and DevOps tooling
Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
- AWS certifications (e.g.: Developer Associate, Sysops Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate, etc.)
- Experience in software engineering and design architecture
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
Company Offered Benefits
Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our employee benefit programs:
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurances,
- Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances,
- 401k with Company match
- Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
- Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
- These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management's discretion and may change at any time.
Salary Range for this position: $139,000-$176,000
CA ID: IT10000542 "Salary ranges provided are for informational purposes only and may vary depending on factors such as experience, qualifications, and geographic location. The final salary offer will be determined based on your skills and alignment with the role requirements."
This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended anytime at the sole discretion of the Employer. Duties and responsibilities are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship. Effectual Inc. is an EEO employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected classification in its hiring, promoting, or any other job-related opportunity.
This is a remote position.
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What We Do
Effectual, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, is an innovative, cloud first managed and professional services company that works with commercial enterprises and the public sector to mitigate their risk and enable IT modernization.
A deeply experienced and passionate team of problem solvers apply proven methodologies to business challenges across Amazon Web Services and VMware Cloud on AWS. Effectual is backed by Catalyst Investors and Lumerity Capital, private equity firms focused on investments in cloud and data infrastructure. Effectual is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and the PCI Security Standards Council.
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