Description

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com Company, has been the world’s leading cloud provider for more than 17 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. We have over 200 fully featured cloud services spread across 102 Availability Zones within 32 geographic regions around the world. Millions of customers in over 240 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in Amazon Web Services to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

As a Solutions Architect (SA) within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services including infrastructure, DevOps, business applications, multimedia, machine learning, IoT, desktop applications, and industries solutions.

Your wide duties will include: owning the technical engagement and eventual success around particular implementation projects, building a broad understanding of how applications and services are built utilizing the AWS platform, and becoming an expert in the AWS technologies.

The ideal candidate will have technical knowledge that enables them to easily interact with and provide direction to developers and architects, customer-facing skills that enable them to effectively represent Amazon within a customer's environment, and a technical background that drives discussions with senior staff members within the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.

• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.

• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.

• Work backwards from your customer's business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS technology

• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).

• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.

• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform. Proactively work within the organisation to influence the evolution of the platform.

• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.

A day in the life

Our team is focused on balancing life with our work, and we do this via work autonomy and by prioritizing solutions and processes that enable us to scale faster than the business. While there may be an opportunity to work from an open-seating office, working remotely is supported, and often times encouraged. Work hours are flexible and typically self-defined.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious about diverse perspectives. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower employees to feel proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences on ethic and gender diversity inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Taipei, TPE, TWN

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• Able to create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

• Presentation and white-boarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers