Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS Industries India

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.

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services. You have technical depth, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services. Effective communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging and influencing Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VPs, and CXOs.

You will be part of a culture of innovation where you'll use AWS services to help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized application. Enable innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps, build highly scalable web & mobile applications with data store technologies.

AWS services cover a wide range of technologies including operational security, infrastructure, DevOps, highly available software architectures, observability, machine learning, and analytics. Our customer solutions usually involve many of these at once. AWS Solutions Architects are expected to have at least one technical area of depth, but also need to be capable of leading discussions across most of these areas.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

As a Solutions Architect, you will provide architectural and technical leadership to a portfolio of customers who are looking to leverage AWS services at scale. You will be the domain expert guiding architectural design decisions, while demonstrating customer obsession to ensure high availability and performance of the customers' applications. You'll have the opportunity to learn and be curious while evangelizing the latest innovations and best practices in infrastructure, engineering, and application design. You will mentor peers and customers while growing your knowledge.

As a core member of the account team, you will drive revenue growth across a specific customer. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand and implement advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS. You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

• 10+ years of experience as enterprise / cloud architect / application architect.
• 5+ years of experience in any one specific technology domain area (e.g. AIML, data & analytics, migration and modernization).
• 5+ years of experience in designing complex solutions using public cloud.
• Experience in pre-sales consulting with proven presentation skills, executive engagement capabilities, and a track record of effectively communicating across diverse stakeholders.

• 10+ years' experience in designing and implementing large distributed systems, with deep expertise in core infrastructure, solution architecture, and distributed computing patterns.
• Extensive background in AWS cloud solutions (AWS certified), cloud migration strategies, and enterprise architecture, with a proven track record of successful implementations.
• Strong foundation in software development and modern engineering practices, demonstrating the ability to architect complex solutions and adapt to emerging technologies while delivering scalable, enterprise-grade solutions.
• Professional experience in pre-sales consulting with proven presentation skills, executive engagement capabilities, and a track record of effectively communicating with stakeholders at all levels while managing ambiguous requirements.

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