Senior Solutions Architecture Manager, India Startups

Amazon; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Sr. Solutions Architecture Manager for India Startups to lead a team of skilled Solutions Architects, driving cloud adoption and complex technical engagements with early‑stage to growth startups across India.

You will coach the team to elevate impact while directly guiding customers through strategic technical decisions and scalable architectures. You bring deep cloud expertise, strong leadership, and a proven track record in executive engagement with founders

Qualifications

• 10+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience.
• 8+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Bachelor's degree and strong cloud experience across major providers.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on cloud platforms and CXO engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead critical customer engagements including cloud adoption and migration programs, and complex technical challenges with high-stakes outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to startup founders and senior business and technical leaders, operating at a strategic level.
• Coach and develop experienced Solutions Architects to elevate their technical capabilities and advisory abilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

CXO engagement

Teams coaching

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Description

Do you have a passion for Startups? Do you have a passion for helping early startup companies grow and thrive? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technical manager to coach, grow, and partner with skilled Startups Solutions Architects focusing on a wide range of customers. Working in collaboration with our sales teams, you will drive growth across a broad set of customers in this segment. If you think you have what it takes to lead the best in the industry, AWS is hiring Managers for our Solutions Architects!

As a Sr. Solutions Architecture Manager for India Startups, you will lead a team of skilled Solutions Architects who partner with early-stage to growth-stage startups across India. You will be hands‑on, working directly with customers on significantly complex technical challenges while coaching your team to elevate their impact. You should bring proven strategic thinking, deep technical expertise, and demonstrated ability to influence across organizations.

You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right—able to architect solutions to significantly complex problems, decompose technical complexity into straightforward solutions, and serve as a trusted advisor to startup founders and CTOs. Simultaneously, you must be effective in developing the customer-facing and technical skills of your experienced team members.

In addition to technical depth, you should have a solid understanding of the startup journey—the unique challenges startups face and how technology can empower their businesses. You will work directly with a variety of startups, helping them make the best technical decisions as they scale, while building your team’s capability to do the same.

Key job responsibilities

Customer Engagement & Technical Leadership

• Lead critical customer engagements including cloud adoption and migration programs, and complex technical challenges with high-stakes outcomes


• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to startup founders and senior business and technical leaders, operating at a strategic level and creating opportunities for your team to act as trusted advisors


• Apply deep technical understanding across multiple domains to invent, evolve, and simplify solutions that drive customer success

Team Leadership & Development

• Coach and develop experienced Solutions Architects to elevate their technical capabilities and strategic advisory abilities


• Build a high-performing team through effective hiring, onboarding, and continuous skill development


• Foster a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession


• Maintain a high bar for operational excellence; define and maintain appropriate cadences for inspecting the business in your area

Strategic Impact & Collaboration

• Champion your area’s customer needs with senior leaders within AWS


• Bridge customer needs with AWS product teams, ensuring customer feedback drives product improvements


• Partner with senior leaders within AWS sales, investor management, specialist, and engineering teams to deliver comprehensive solutions and clear obstacles to customer success

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t following 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.

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience


• 8+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience


• Bachelor's degree


• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.


• Experience in people management and CXO level engagement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud


• AWS Professional level certification

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