Senior Solutions Architect, FSI

Overview

Job ID: | AWS India - Maharashtra

As a Solutions Architect, Primary responsibilities include owning the technical engagement and drive customer success, developing a deep expertise on the AWS technology stack as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform and plan their successful cloud journey. You’ll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures. You’ll drive in technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.

Building relationships to understand our customers and partners is key. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives. You’ll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals. Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.

You’ll also act as thought leader in the wider community. This includes playing a lead in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops. You won’t just be part of an industry movement; you’ll be leading it.

As a customer obsessed advisor, you’ll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and service teams.

Want to find out what it’s like to be a Solution Architect at AWS? Watch this video (

Responsibilities

• Own the technical engagement and drive customer success.
• Develop a deep expertise on the AWS technology stack and broad know-how on how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; plan customers’ cloud journey.
• Solve complex, technical challenges so customers can focus on their business.
• Craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Drive technical solution discussions and dive deep into details with customer teams.
• Build relationships to understand customers and partners as a trusted technical advisor; influence stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
• Help ensure short-term technology decisions are aligned with long-term goals; accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• Act as a thought leader by educating others, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers and blogs, and running workshops.
• Shape the direction of products and services by gathering customer feedback and collaborating with engineering and service teams.
• Optional: Use the video as a reference for understanding the role (watch at the provided link).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud
• Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS or other cloud technology
• One or more AWS certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Able to present to technical and business audiences (training, workshops, publications)
• 8 years’ experience as a Solution Architect or related role

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in roles such as Technology Architect, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developer, Engineering Lead, Sales Engineer, Pre Sales Engineer or Systems Engineer
• Experience and/or deeper understanding in one or more technology areas (software development/architecture, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• Ability to create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or using reusable components
• Understands and can articulate common architectural patterns and design principles
• Can lead on a complex technical project requiring collaboration with multiple teams
• Ability to create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others

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