AWS Senior Solutions Architect

You are expected to be a subject matter expert on AWS services, tools and best practices. You will answer questions on various cloud-native technologies and AWS services, and you will provide recommendations on what service to use and when. As such, you should have extensive hands-on experience with a variety of AWS services, their limitations and alternate (non-AWS) solutions that might serve better in particular situations. You will be participating in pre-sales activities, helping with RFPs and you will be heavy client facing.

• Engage with clients to gather requirements and understand their vision
• Recommend solutions around AWS technologies
• Create roadmaps and estimates
• Lead technical discussions during sales call
• Create new service offerings based on innovative solutions
• Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
• Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
• Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change

QUALIFICATIONS

In this role, we are looking for someone with:

• Proven track record of leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes - required.
• Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects - required.
• Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market/technical conditions and future direction - required.
• Deep Cloud-Native Services Experience - required.
• End-to-end solution expertise across various tiers of enterprise architecture - required.
• Deep experience of AWS services related to compute, networking, storage, security and database - required.
• Demonstrated experience working with the C-level/Senior leadership at medium or large enterprises - required.
• Extensive experience with writing scripts-terraform/cloudformation - required.
• Developing applications utilizing programming languages like Java, Node, Python, etc