Amazon

Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Posted On

Nov. 12, 2024

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Solutions Architect

Apply By

Oct. 21, 2025

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of financial services industry knowledge, technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As an industry specialist, AWS Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the world’s largest financial services companies, AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

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.
Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain, and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:
• Identifying patterns
• Defining technical trends that can affect the industry
• Publishing reference architectures
• Building industry quickstarts and other development kits
• Collecting technical best practices in the industry
• Establish credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers’ business problems

The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendors or system integrators. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise. They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.

Key job responsibilities

• With the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry
• You will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
• Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS
• Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes
• Travel may be required for this role, up to 25%

About the team
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, 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.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth - We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance - We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
- Experience working in Financial Services organizations and implementing solutions in a regulated environment; driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.
- Experience working as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions in the Financial Services industry.
- Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.

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