Solution Architect – ITS, GSI & ITS Vertical Full Time

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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.
AWS 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 Emerging companies across various Verticals 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 Emergin customers find innovative and transformative ways to reinvent their business!
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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.
• Work backwards from your customer’s business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS technology
• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
• 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 organisation 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 the SMB segment, like FSI, Retail , IT& ITeS , 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 Solutions Architect you’ll own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency. They work to understand the customer’s business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology. To do this they collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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