Job summary

Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing technology that will impact virtually any industry, from consumer products, retail and healthcare to highly complex industrial engineering like automotive and aerospace. There are many challenges around the emerging IoT space, from multiple communication protocols, device SDKs, security, scalability, integration with the cloud platforms and mobile apps etc. AWS launched in 2015 a new IoT Service to answer to most of these challenges and help our customers designing and developing faster connected devices,
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that let connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, the applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.
Amazon is seeking an outstanding Solution Architect to join AWS IoT Partner team to support the rapidly growing and dynamic Internet of Things business.

As part of an agile IoT development team you will support AWS partners to enable them around the platform, develop prototypes and proof of concepts specific to their products and services for customers. So if you are someone who innovates, likes solving hard problems and working on cutting edge technology, we would love to have you on the team! The IoT development team is a hands-on team of Solutions Architects supporting AWS partners and their customers to build the first demos adapted to their specific IoT use cases and devices. The job is based in India preferably Bangalore but open for other metro locations.

Key job responsibilities

As a Partner Solutions Architect you’ll help build an ecosystem of consulting and technology partners for our IOT services. This involves engaging with top tier technology companies to integrate AWS IOT services into their solutions and qualifying IOT OEM devices for integration with AWS services. In this hands on technical position, you will dive deep into a variety of complex problems. As a crafter of scalable architectures, you’ll help customers build optimized solutions that can scale to deliver outcomes for multiple customers.
You will own the technical engagements with partners and their ultimate success. This includes doing proof of concepts, validating partner solutions, enabling partners on AWS technology and sharing thought leadership around industry trends and AWS IOT services. Additionally, you’ll develop a broad know-how around how our services are constructed. As a trusted advisor, you’ll represent Amazon and partner capability within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with executives and technology leaders.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
Educate customers/partners of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS
Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs.
Nurture relationships with partners, enabling them to become cloud advocates.
Act as a technical liaison between service engineering team, support team and our partners

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· The successful candidate will have spent 3+ years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organisations and in interactions with partner and customers in the development or implementation of IoT solutions
· Experience working with end user or developers communities
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Computer Science fundamentals with working knowledge of software development practices and technologies required. Advanced Degree a plus.
· Strong technical architecture, design, deployment and operational level knowledge of integrating IoT platforms, standards, protocols and devices
· Strong customer facing skills
· Strong public speaking and written communications skills. Past experience writing and publishing technical whitepapers desirable.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Professional experience in software development in C, C++, NodeJS / Javascript, Python
· Experience with database technology SQL, No-SQL as well as DW (Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, HDFS Hive etc.) and relevant data modeling practices
· Experience working with RESTful API and general service oriented architectures
· Proficiency in development on iOS or Android.
· Experience with AWS services highly desirable, particularly AWS IoT, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, S3, Redshift
· An understanding of Machine to Machine (M2M), devices, cloud and field gateways, data analytics, web and mobile development, and many of the areas encompassed in an end-to-end IoT implementation.
· Understanding of any other technologies used in IoT: MQTT, RFID, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Cisco, Axeda, Thingworx, Wind River, SCADA.
· Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
· Ability to design and develop technical enablement training and workshops to specialised audience
· Proactively and continually improve knowledge of AWS relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, repeatable solutions and design patterns