Senior Solutions Architect, APJ, APJ PS Industry Tech Team
DESCRIPTION
Are you an enterprise technologist with experience of large-scale industry transformations? Do you have experience with migration/modernisation of complex workloads to cloud and cloud-native architectures? Can you articulate to senior leaders and executives the benefits of moving to cloud and can you work with technology teams to architect solutions to strategic problems? Would you like to work with our customers and partners to help them architect, develop and re-engineer applications to fully leverage AWS Cloud?
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring a Solution Architect to help accelerate our growing Higher Education business as part of the PS Industry practice across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). The successful candidate with help customers transform the way they use technology to deliver business value and improve student and learning services. Our Solution Architects use their personal experiences building on AWS, combine them with the experiences of other customers, and help enterprises understand and realize the business value they can unlock using AWS services. This role has three main components: supporting technical vision and strategy; architecting specific cases; and guidance and advisement to deliver change in customer technical environments.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
As part of the public sector Cloud Transformation team, Solution Architects collaborate across the entire AWS organization to deliver the best solutions for customers. As trusted customer advocates, the team helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions; how to migrate and/or re-develop existing workloads in the cloud and modernise infrastructure, applications and data to optimise for business and customer outcomes. You will help shape solutions for a broad range of customer use cases primarily from large enterprise customers in the Public Sector.
The role requires cross-industry business acumen and enterprise transformation. It requires a desire for continued knowledge acquisition and growth, obsession for customers and their success using AWS. You will take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of AWS services. Achieving success will require coordination across many internal AWS teams and external AWS Partners, with impact and visibility at the highest levels of the company.
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Key job responsibilities
- Working with Business Development teams to articulate effective EDU transformation strategies at a technical level
- Positioning how cloud technology can solve business problems
- Collaborating with Partners and ISVs to define and invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases, including modernizing monolithic and legacy software to a SaaS solution
- Delivering one-to-many workshops to identify and solve key business problems
- Advising and implementing AWS best practices
- Leveraging Agile development and delivery methodologies
- Provide thought leadership for customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
- Engage systems integrators and independent software vendors support their technical implementation efforts in AWS
- Assist solution providers working with Education & Research organisations to define and implement technical and business strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offerings on the AWS platform
- Gain industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at AWS and third-party technology conferences, trade shows and press events
- Capture and share best practice knowledge with Industry SME's
- Understand the AWS market segments, customer base, and industry verticals in APJ, especially in Education
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities