Senior Solutions Architect

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated Solution Architect with a strong understand of the Financial Services sector. The candidate should possess a balance of strong technical, business, communication and interpersonal skills.

You will work with some of the ASEAN’s largest Banks and FSI customers in collaboration with AWS Sales teams to a coherent technical strategy founded in AWS cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate their adoption of AWS services.

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.

Key job responsibilities
– Build trusted relationships with key technical C-suite decision makers – esp CIOs, Chief Data Officers, CISOs and Enterprise architects; understand the customer’s technology challenges; dive deep and understand stated, unstated needs, issues;
– Working backwards from the customer and business needs, build a holistic technology vision for IT/Digital Transformation, strategy and practical transformation plan– addressing technology challenges but also increasing business impact, innovation and agility, addressing skills and org challenges.
– Challenge the technical status quo, inspire customer to a bolder technical vision and increase the velocity of shift to digital/cloud; Address short, mid and long-term time horizons; Work with customer, AWS leadership and all key stakeholders to create buy-in and joint ownership of transformation strategy and execution plan;
– Provide leadership to pull together and orchestrate all AWS technical resources (Solution Architects, Service lines, Service teams) to support customer success.- Build a strategic eco-system of AWS consulting, integration and delivery and ISV partners to support the delivery of customer’s digital transformation outcomes, increase satisfaction, and build a sustainable platform for sales growth.
– Advocacy – Represent the AWS technology strategy for Banking/FSI to our internally and externally, industry events, media, etc.
– In this role you’ll act as a CIO in-residence, serving as a technology & strategy advisor for key AWS enterprise customers. You are based in our AWS Singapore office but will have remit across the ASEAN region

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 followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
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Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Technical degree or extensive technical experience required
– Significant design/implementation/consulting experience with Cloud or distributed applications
– Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
– Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
– Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
– Deep understanding and implementation of database, data lakes and analytics. Experience with predictive analytics, semi- and unstructured data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Computer Science, Engineering or Math background highly desired
– Strong understanding of AWS and/or technology as a service (Iaas,SaaS,PaaS) would be preferred but not required.
– Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
– Experience of building machine learning solutions on public cloud platforms
– Talent for being able to influence and build mindshare convincingly with any audience. Confident and experienced in public speaking to large audiences.
– Ability to handle complex relationships and work in a team environment is a key requirement
– Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Java and data querying tools.