Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for hands-on technical architects to be part of the Prototyping And Cloud Engineering Team based in Manila, covering South East Asia (ASEAN) market.
Do you have a builder’s mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”? Are you passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms, and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with Customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate the technical feasibility of solutions?
As trusted customer advocates, the PACE team helps customers experiment in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, coding and strong interpersonal and writing skills.
You will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as GenAI, AI/ML, IoT, and Serverless. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role.
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.
Key job responsibilities
Some qualities that will make a person successful in this role:
- Have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers ranging, which are primarily large enterprises.
- The ideal candidate will have experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
- You combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability.
- You will often engage in the early stages of customer use-cases and even in competitive situations. Being able to deal with ambiguity; have good communication skills; and ready to go hands-on implementing a prototype on short notice. You will often be the lead technical person in the room and dealing with other senior leaders from technical and business domains.
- Push the technical bar. You should have an appetite and take the initiative to learn new topics in areas of Generative AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, AR/VR, IoT, etc. in an enterprise context.
- Be great fun to work with; At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, willing to take on challenges and make a significant impact.
Position requires ~25% travel
About the team
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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.
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and 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. - 10+ years of design/implementation/consulting application development experience
- Deep knowledge of software development tools, agile methodologies, active, hands-on coding, and application design experience
- Proficiency developing in one or more modern programming language; Full-Stack development skills: Java, Python, Javascript, GoLang, React, AngularJS, CSS, etc.); you will be expected to discuss in depth both the design and your significant contributions to one or more projects
- Ensure technical output, such as code and other artifacts, are packaged in an easily consumable and repeatable way for customers and internal teams including marketing, solutions architecture, and support
- Must be able to whiteboard technical architectures and able to quickly go hands-on keyboard implementing them.- 4+ years as technical & engagement lead. Ability to lead in-depth architectural discussions with the customer, partners, and other AWS teams.
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many interactive sessions, such as workshops, while acting as lead and also supporting different functions.
- High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
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