Sr Innovation Engineer, IHub, Innovation and Engagement

Description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer’s unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world’s most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

The AWS APJ Innovation Hub is a physical experience center in Singapore where C-suite executives from across Asia Pacific and Japan see what’s newly possible with AWS. We build interactive demonstrations, rapid prototypes, and immersive experiences that turn inspiration into real transformation outcomes. The Hub covers industries including manufacturing, financial services, public sector, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and emerging domains like physical AI.

We’re looking for a Senior Innovation Engineer who can take a business problem and turn it into a working, executive-grade demo in days, not months. You’ll own the end-to-end technical creation of new use cases, from concept through architecture through deployed prototype, working directly with Innovation Hub leads and customer-facing teams.

Beyond building individual demos, you’ll shape how the team builds. That means creating reusable templates, identifying common patterns across use cases, curating component libraries, and establishing the scaffolding that lets the next demo get built faster than the last one. You’re not just shipping prototypes; you’re building the system that produces prototypes.

This is a builder role. You spend most of your time writing code, designing experiences, and shipping prototypes that showcase AWS capabilities at the frontier.

Key job responsibilities
Use Case Development and Rapid Prototyping (60%)
– Lead end-to-end development of new use cases and interactive demonstrations, from concept to deployed prototype
– Build fullstack prototypes using modern web technologies. Our current reference stack is React/TypeScript frontends, Python Lambda backends, and CDK infrastructure, with AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Bedrock Agents, AgentCore) as the core capability layer. You’ll work within this stack and help evolve it.
– Translate customer business challenges into compelling technical demonstrations within tight timelines. Typical build cycle is 1 to 2 weeks from concept to live demo.
– Architect serverless solutions that are cheap when idle and reliable during walkthroughs
– Develop industry-specific prototypes across manufacturing (digital twins, predictive maintenance, computer vision quality inspection), financial services (claims automation, wealth management, compliance), public sector (smart city operations, geospatial intelligence, digital identity), healthcare, telecommunications, and physical AI
– Build with executive-grade UX standards: immersive layouts, streaming AI responses, fast interactions, touchscreen-aware interfaces, and narrative-driven flows
– Incorporate the latest AWS service launches and capabilities into Hub demonstrations. The role requires staying current with what AWS ships.
– Build and maintain reusable templates, component libraries, and patterns that make future builds faster. Identify what’s common across use cases and extract it into shared tooling.
Technical Architecture and Innovation (25%)
– Design solution architectures that balance demo impact with operational simplicity. Fewer services, direct integrations, serverless by default.
– Evaluate and integrate emerging AWS services (new Bedrock models, custom silicon capabilities, multi-modal inference, agentic frameworks) into the Hub’s use case portfolio
– Own the Hub’s infrastructure patterns: CDK stacks, Lambda layers, shared backend utilities, frontend component libraries. Decide when to build new patterns and when to extend existing ones.
– Orchestrate across the AWS ecosystem. Find and connect the right components from Bedrock, SageMaker, open source libraries, partner tools, and internal accelerators to assemble demos efficiently.
– Ensure all prototypes meet the Hub’s operational bar: one-command deploy, zero cost when idle, graceful degradation, deterministic state, health checks
– Provide technical guidance to Hub team members on AWS services, solution architecture, and prototyping approaches
– Partner with AWS service teams, GenAIIC, ProServe, and partners to incorporate their capabilities into Hub experiences
Technical Infrastructure and Operations (15%)
– Maintain demo environments and ensure reliability for customer visits. Demos must work flawlessly during live walkthroughs.
– Manage AWS account infrastructure, security compliance, and access controls for Hub environments
– Coordinate with AWS security and infrastructure teams on vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements
– Implement monitoring and automated recovery for critical demo infrastructure

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 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.

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
– Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
– Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
– Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics

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