Principal Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts, AWS Industries India
Amazon
2 - 5 years
Bengaluru, Hyderabad
Posted: 06/06/2025
Job Description
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) India, Principal Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment, you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services.
In this role, you will help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized application.
You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS Services.
You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.
Along the way, you will get the opportunity to enhance your own body of knowledge and have some fun.
As a core member of the account team, you will drive AWS usage and adoption across a specific customer.
As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand and implement advanced cloud
- based solutions, and how to migrate and scale existing workloads in the cloud.
You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS.
You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.
For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complimented by technical depth in Accelerated Computing, Containers, Storage, Networking, AIML, Open Source, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in
- depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VP’s and CXOs.
If you are excited about the prospect of using your cloud architecture experience to assist our most valuable customers, tackling challenging problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, enhancing and growing your own skills, and having fun, then we would love to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities
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 recognized 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.
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.
Basic Qualifications
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- 12+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g.
AIML, data & analytics, cloud computing, software development, open source, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking) experience.
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- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end
- to
- end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
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- Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent.
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- 12+ years of experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
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- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field of study or 12+ years of related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Experience in software development tools and methodologies including using Open Source software at scale.
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About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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