Solutions Architect, Public Sector

Solutions Architect, Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Are you excited to work with the team that enables Indian industries to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect, who can work with our customers, who have built world class scaling infrastructure, exceptional solutions, exploding digital content and interactive experiences. Indian industries are profoundly changing everyday life of billion+ Indians through their digital native solutions.

About the Role

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ensure success around specific implementation projects, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. An ideal candidate will be owning the architecture and design IT systems deploying at scale, have worked as a part of Center of excellence, Innovation centers etc. to evangelize adoption of new technologies, have experience with multiple technologies, patterns and frameworks; and is able to figure out trade-offs between them, be hands-on and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do Proof of concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies & constant learners.

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 senior executives within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to developer community and architects in India. S/he should also have demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work with AWS customers to map business requirements to technology.
• Define performance requirements based on user access patterns.
• Compare between various design patterns.
• Discern between variety of Generative AI, AI/ML, data, analytics, compute, containers, and serverless technologies.
• Architect for high availability and scaling requirements, while minimizing cost and meeting security standards.
• Architect disaster recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO.
• Advise on building DevOps pipelines and processes.
• Advise on monitoring and observability.
• Conduct well-architected reviews.
• Partner with AWS Specialists to implement innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with Service teams to identify feature gaps and suggest new features.
• Present to customer C-suite and technical communities on architecture patterns, best practices, case studies.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 6+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• AWS Services
• Generative AI
• Machine Learning
• Data & Analytics
• DevOps
• Solution Design
• Public Sector
• Technical Consulting
• High Availability & Scaling