Prototyping Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and excellent interpersonal skills to join the Financial Services Solutions Architecture team. This role is for a Full-Stack Prototyping Solutions Architect with a strong focus on containerized cloud native or serverless architectures, leveraging generative AI/ML technologies in crafting solutions, and the ability to create delightful user interfaces and user experiences for our customers.

At AWS, we have a credo of "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". In this role, you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will partner with customers that want to modernize existing or build new full-stack applications, leveraging Cloud Native and Serverless architectures to provide highly scalable, cost-effective, flexible and resilient solutions. You will help customers understand Cloud development best practices on AWS and how to best integrate them with their client applications.

The successful candidate will possess significant hands-on experience in application development in the Cloud with Serverless and Managed services (preferably with AWS services like AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancers, Amazon EC2/ECS/EKS, Amazon Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock etc.) and will be capable of developing client applications exposing different types of user interfaces and experiences (e.g. Web Front-Ends, Mobile Applications or Alexa Skills).

As part of an agile development team, you will support AWS customers to develop prototypes specific to their products and services. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solutions architect community. You will also gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

Key job responsibilities

1. Lead trusted relationships with AWS customers' enterprise architects, solution architects, software architects, and software engineers to understand the customer's technology challenges.
2. Create end-to-end solutions and prototypes addressing technology challenges while increasing business impact, innovation, and agility.
3. Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions.
4. Work with AWS customers to convey cloud computing security and risk management best practices.
5. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
6. Develop technical content, such as white papers and reference architectures, to assist customers in deploying secure cloud-based solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 4+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or C/C++.
• 4+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using one or more IaC toolchain such as Terraform HCL, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree, or AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification.
• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective.
• Experience in building frontend UI using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, ReactJS, Angular, Vue or similar frontend frameworks.
• Background in the financial services industry such as in banking, payments, capital markets, insurance is a plus.

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