DESCRIPTION

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Are you excited to work with the team that enables India’s conglomerates to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The Cross-Industry team in AWS India Pvt Ltd is looking for a Solutions Architect who can work with our customers who are augmenting their existing business empries with new business models on the foundations of payment infrastructure like UPI, quick commerce, widespread 4G internet access, affordable smartphones, exploding digital content, identity infrastructure like Aadhaar and world class cloud infrastructure. These new businesses are rapidly and profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their services of E-commerce, rides sharing, food delivery, social media, tele-medicine, gaming, FinTech and many more.

Key job responsibilities
Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. An ideal candidate should have worked on solution design & architecture of as part of a CoE, Cloud Practice team etc. Candidate must have have in-depth experience one or more of following technologies – Full stack application development/ DevOps / Databases / Networking / Security / Observability / Data Analytics & AIML. Good understanding of patterns and frameworks and ability to identify trade-offs is required. Candidate should have a flair for hands-on coding to do Proof of Concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, and able to learn new technologies and customer business domain.

The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS India well within a customer’s or partner’s environment and drive discussions with mid to senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects.

A day in the life
The selected candidate will work with conglomerates to map business requirements to technology. This will include but not limited to, understanding various design patterns & discern between various data & compute technologies. The candidate will also ensure right TCO while meeting the functional & non-functional requirements. The candidate will also guide on building DevSecOps, Observability & Monitoring of Infrastructure & Applications; conduct Well Architected Reviews; partner with AWS Domain & Technology Specialists to implement innovative solutions; collaborate with the Service Teams to identify feature gaps & engage with Technical communities and Customer C-Suite on Technology strategy & Best practices.

About the team
The Cross-Industry team is one of the most diverse teams you would ever get in your career. Our team members have deep technology experience spanning areas of Analytics, IoT, AI/ML, Observability, Resiliency & Security. Top it up with years of domain expertiese across Automotive, Manufacturing, HCLS, Travel & Hospitality – this is the team where Tech meets Business for the largest movers & shakers of India’s push to $5T economy.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 12+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
– 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
– Experience in developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformation toward cloud computing
– Able to create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components
– Prior experience in communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders, customers and internal facing teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud
– Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, database design and implementation and strongly articulating business value from technical solutions
– Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
– One or more valid AWS Certifications, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification
– Presentation and white-boarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.