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Application Modernization Partner Solution Architect, APJ Industry & Partner Solutions COE

Job ID: 2744604 | Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited

DESCRIPTION

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 and partners including public sector.
Amazon Web Services is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is looking for a world class candidate for the role of Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, Application Modernization. As a Partner SA and application modernization technology domain expert, you will work with partners to modernize customer’s application workloads from legacy applications to modern cloud native services like containers, serverless. As a partner Solutions Architect you’ll help build an ecosystem of partners for our application modernization services. This involves engaging with consulting and technology partners and their customers to integrate AWS services like Containers, serverless into their solutions and practices. In this hands-on technical specialist role, you will enable our partners to understand the best practices on application modernization, design the most suitable application architectures in different scenarios so they can deliver these solutions to customers. You will work in close collaboration with our partner management teams to help partners build and upskill on AWS application modernization services and choose AWS as their preferred platform for customer implementations. Shaping and delivering a strategy to accelerate use of AWS services in partner solutions, including Containers and Serverless is a key part of the role.

You will own the technical engagement with partners and their ultimate success. This includes solution design and architecture review to support customer opportunities and project implementations, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies. In this role, you will be highly collaborative working across a broad set of teams and managing stakeholders. You will act as voice of partners internally with AWS services and Global COE teams.


Key job responsibilities
. Engage C-level business and technical executives of partners and customers of all sizes and demonstrate the value proposition of AWS application modernization services
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure modern applications are designed for successful deployment in the AWS cloud.
• Dive deep with partners to build technical capabilities through 1:1 and 1-to-many training sessions on various AWS application modernization services & solutions to build their application modernization practices on AWS
• Be the thought leader on AWS application modernization services and present in various forums on application modernization and building cloud native applications.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs.
• Nurture relationships with partners, enabling them to drive customer success leveraging AWS application modernization services.
• Act as a technical liaison between service engineering team, account teams and our partner community


A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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 followed 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.

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 & 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.

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.

About the team
APJ Industry & Partner Solutions COE team is responsible to grow AWS services adoption, along with focus in targeted industries through differentiated partner solutions built on AWS services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of experience as Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, Technical Consultant, Software Architect, Software Engineering Lead.
- 5+ years of application design and development experience, application development and DevOps practices within an enterprise, customer-facing roles or within a leading consulting company or systems integrator.
- 5+ years hands on experience developing, managing or working with Containers, Serverless, and integration services technologies such as: ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, MQ, and/or Step Functions
- 5+ years of working with large-scale container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, OpenShift, etc in production environments.
- Knowledge of IP networking, firewall and VPN architectures, service mesh, DNS, and service delivery through load balancing techniques.
- Effective collaboration skills with the ability to interact and influence CxO level executives

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Effective verbal, written communications skills, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large-scale Serverless or Containers delivery projects (either on premises or in the cloud) and/or experience in the industry as a leader in the fields of application development, agile delivery and DevOps.
- AWS implementation or consulting experience with hands on experience working with event-driven or microservices architectures.
- AWS Professional Certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional) or other industry certification.
- Proficient in several popular scripting or programming skills in any of the following popular languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java, Bash/Shell/PowerShell, .NET, Go, Ruby, etc.