Prototyping SA, AWS Financial Services Prototyping & Cloud Engineering

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 team is a group of hands-on developers supporting AWS customers to build the first solution adapted to their specific use cases and devices. 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 be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact. 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. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS with customers ranging from start-ups to established enterprise customers.

The successful candidate will possess a 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 with customers 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 enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so that you can make substantial contributions to in-depth architecture discussions. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution 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.
So if you are someone who innovates, likes solving hard problems, loves programming and working on cutting edge technology, we would love to have you on the team!


Key job responsibilities

• Lead trusted relationships with AWS customer’s enterprise architects, solution architects, software architects, and software engineers to understand the customer’s technology challenges; dive deep and understand stated, unstated business needs, and challenges.
• Working backwards from AWS customer's business needs, create end-to-end solutions, and prototypes addressing technology challenges but also increasing business impact, innovation and agility.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Work with AWS customers to convey cloud computing security and risk management best practices.
• Work with other teams within AWS to drive customer success.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Assess security-related knowledge across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams and develop plans to address gaps.
• Advocate for and influence the AWS technology strategy for FSI internally and externally, at industry events, meet-ups, and summits.
• Develop technical content, such as white papers and reference architectures, that can be used by our customers to assist them in deploying secure cloud-based solutions.
• Work with industry groups to influence information security trends in cloud computing.


About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.