Principal Solutions Architect Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (AISPL) the local reseller of AWS Cloud in India, is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will co-operate with some of the worlds largest companies and collaborate with several other teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS Cloud in India.

You will own and drive technical engagement across few large global customers of AISPL in collaboration with BD team in India. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations on best practices around building advanced cloud-based applications/solutions, and on migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You will build mindshare and broad use of AWS within AISPLs global enterprise customers. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think proactively about business, products, and technical challenges.

Role and responsibility

As a key member of the BD team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS Cloud.
In partnership with the BD team, formulate and execute a strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS Cloud in India.
Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS Cloud, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud and deliver end objective.
Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS cloud services.
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
Author or otherwise contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blog etc.
Build relationships with senior technical stakeholders within customers to enabale them to be cloud advocates.
Act as a technical liaison between customers and other teams (service engineering, support, training etc) and provide support, as required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have minimum 10-15 years of past experience in solution architecture (designing/implementation/consulting).
Dynamic and creative, willing to take on challenge and make a big impact.
Enjoy working with large, global customers. Passion for educating, training customers and designing/building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging use cases for enterprise customers.
Enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions using AWS services.
Have a strong understanding of large scale applications and computing solutions.
Experience in design/implementation/consulting experience on distributed applications. And working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
History of successful technical sales, architecture consulting engagements.
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with senior executives, IT Management, and developers.
Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Technical degree; Bachelors in Computer Science or Math background highly desired
Professional experience on AWS Cloud. AWS Certification like SA Associate or other.
Experience in Media and Entertainment industry.
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java /Ruby / Node.js / Python, etc).

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