Solutions Architect - Financial Services Industry

Solutions Architect – FSI , FSI SA

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Are you excited to work with the team that enables India’s leading FSI organisations to build innovative services with AWS, scaling to serve billion+ Indians? The FSI team in AWS India is looking for a Solutions Architect who can work with our customers who have built business models by serving financial need of customers & building foundations of payment infrastructure like UPI, widespread 4G internet access, affordable smartphones, exploding digital content, identity infrastructure like Aadhar and world class cloud infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. An ideal candidate will have owned the architecture and designed IT systems deployed at scale, have worked as a part of Centre of Excellence, Innovation Centres etc. to investigate adoption of new technologies, have experience with multiple technologies, patterns and frameworks; and is able to figure out trade-offs between them, be hands-on, and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do PoC & demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies & constant learners.

The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon Web Services India Pvt Ltd. (AWS India) well within a customer environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects in India. S/he should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
- Bachelor's degree or above in engineering or equivalent STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field
- Experience in networking fundamentals, security, databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), operating systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
- Experience in the area of Analytics / GenAI / Containers / API / Cloud architecture & deployment

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Experience Level

Senior Level