Sr. Application Architect

About the job

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. We are looking for a Senior Application Architect to design and deliver modern, cloud-native applications for AWS Professional Services (ProServe) India customers. In this role, you will own the technical architecture of complex customer engagements, from application assessment and modernization strategy through design, build, and production go-live. You will advise senior customer engineering leaders on how to re-architect, migrate, and modernize their application portfolios on AWS. The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect with deep software engineering and IT consulting experience and a proven track record of delivering large-scale distributed applications for enterprise customers. You can work through ambiguous problems with limited guidance and make sound architectural trade-offs across cost, performance, security, and resilience. You thrive in a fast-paced, growth environment, insist on the highest standards, and enjoy mentoring engineers and turning proven patterns into reusable assets for the wider team. You will lead technical workstreams made up of AWS consultants, partners, and customer developers, and set the architecture direction across microservices, containers, serverless, APIs, data integration, and DevOps practices. You are expected to write and review code, produce architecture artifacts, run design reviews, and resolve technical risks before they affect delivery. You will also support pre-sales by shaping solution designs and estimates, earn customer trust through technical credibility, and use AI/GenAI (including AI-assisted development tools) to speed up how applications are designed and built. In this capacity you will be based in India and are expected to travel occasionally (30-40%). You will report into the India ProServe Application Architecture Delivery Practice Manager.

Key job responsibilities We are looking for hands-on architects/developers who are passionate about:

- Help internal customers make decisions on their cloud and AI journey, define scalable architecture, highly available solutions that leverage AWS services and AI capabilities - Assisting internal customers to architect and develop applications that are cloud-optimized and AI-integrated, including Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions - Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams - Guiding customers through the AI Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC)/ AI-assisted software engineering, from problem framing, data readiness, and model selection to deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement. - Sharing deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, AI design patterns, and programming - Advising and implementing AWS best practices for both cloud-native and AI-powered workloads - Assisting internal customers in infrastructure, application development, and AI solution integration - Assisting internal customers in agile software development and Implementation of DevOps practices - Independently leading a team that delivers applications including AI-enabled features spanning the full software lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy - Scoping development efforts, identifying risks, and prioritizing deliverables to meet organizational goals; providing guidance so your team designs solutions making the right trade-offs between innovation, speed, and operational excellence

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Basic qualifications - 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience - 10+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience - 10+ years of software development with object oriented language experience - 10+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent - Travel up to 30% of the time

Preferred qualifications - 6+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience - Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes - Experience in one of the following programming languages: Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C - Experience in professional, non-internship software development, or experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing - Experience with CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments - Familiarity with AI-DLC / AI-assisted software engineering, data preparation, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and deploying Generative/Agentic AI solutions

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