AWS India Karnataka Looking for Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Greenfield (Trailblazers) at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

• 12+ years experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking)
• Experience in developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformation toward cloud computing
• A team player who is mentoring and coaching teams of motivated technologists
• Prior experience in communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders, customers and internal facing teams.
• Do you love tackling new business challenges using cutting edge technology?
• Are you curious by nature and enjoy experimentation to create innovative solutions?
• Do you want to work somewhere in which you can collaborate and share ideas to enable technology adoption at pace and at scale?

About the Role

AWS Enterprise Solutions Architects are trusted advisors to our customers, helping them solve some of their largest business challenges by designing and advising on some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient solutions in the world.

Working closely with internal teams at AWS, you’ll identify how our customers push the boundaries and how we can improve our services to obsess over our customers.

Being a thought leader who creates and presents content you’ll help all of our customers scale and grow in non-linear ways, using AWS as their building blocks.

In this role, you will push technology boundaries and help scale some of the largest companies in India. You will have the opportunity to partner with customers early in their cloud journey and help them scale as well as customers further in their cloud journey where you can have visible and measurable impact in their growth ambitions.

You will test traditional thinking by pushing the boundaries for your customers and AWS to dream and deliver beyond what they think is possible.

Our customers’ needs are moving fast, so you will too. Be part of the team helping our largest customers find innovative and transformative ways to reinvent their business!

Key job responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform. Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.
• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.

A day in the life

Our solutions architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills. The variety of customers is huge as we work across all industries within our Enterprise segment, like retail, telecommunications, media and entertainment to name a few. On a daily basis you will work alongside people who are leading the way in designing cloud bases architecture. We are the trusted advisor to our customers, so challenge our customers to think differently, learn more build elegant, transformative solutions!

As a Principal Solutions Architects work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities. They have a leading role in developing both the strategy and the team itself. They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to speed-up innovation across their customer segment. Externally, they are recognised thought leaders and influence the strategy of our customers. Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.

• 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.