Solutions Architect Public Sector, AWS India Public Sector

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.

This job opening is for a Solutions Architect role within the public sector team of Amazon Web Services India Private Limited. We work with the central government ministries state and local governments public sector units education institutions EdTech startups including India-based Unicorns nonprofits and healthcare. Our vision is to help public institutions in India to make a significant impact to the lives of citizens by taking a technology generation leap through use of AWS cloud services within the domains of Skilling Smart Infrastructure Healthcare and Inclusion (Physical Digital and Financial).

We are known for our unwavering customer obsession. Our solutions architecture teams are on the front line of helping customers succeed using AWS technologies. Our team members leverage their deep knowledge of AWS technologies in collaboration with our sales and partner teams to impact how solutions are proposed architected and implemented for clients. Helping make customer success a reality and seeing the impact in real-time drives our teams to explore new frontiers in leveraging AWS cloud for both commercial and public sector organizations.

If you have worked with Amazon Web Services technologies or have AWS certifications you would like to leverage we will help you maximize the impact of your skills and knowledge. Along the way youll share with and learn from talented team members all focused on helping customers explore the benefits of moving from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.

As a solutions architect you will provide a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures and implement designs that will scale over time based on five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework operational excellence security reliability performance efficiency and cost optimization.

You will do well in this role if you demonstrate excellent customer-facing communication skills representing technical solutions at senior leadership levels. You thrive on diving deep into complex technology environments and express these as industry standard architecture diagrams and well-articulated solution narratives. You will be right at home if you stay updated on latest technology trends and have a sense of urgency and hunger for learning more about customer business and relevant technology solutions across industries. Solutions architects love to travel spending time with diverse customers small and large self-manage high intensity context switching between competing priorities and demonstrate a sense of urgency to deliver results.

Delivering to primary responsibilities of a solutions architect you will 1) establish technical credibility in sales cycles for Amazon platforms technologies and the company by collaborating with the sales team to win new business; 2) capture and convey best practices and provide prescriptive guidance around application and systems design on the Amazon platforms and technologies via direct customer and partner interaction development of technical content events evangelism training and operational event support; and 3) help drive the evolution of the Amazon platforms and technologies by providing direct input and feedback from the field to the engineering teams developing these offerings. Finally tenured team members are tasked with recruiting hiring and developing top SA talent; managing and applying that resource in a prudent and efficient way; and driving cross-organizational initiatives related to the areas identified above.


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- 8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 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

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite S/4HANA SAP Business Warehouse SAP HANA SAP Business Objects etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA SAP Cloud Platform SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private

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