Description

Talkers Talk, Builders Build. Are you a passionate technologist who thrives on solving complex challenges for diverse customers? Do you want to lead thought leadership in the community to drive digital transformation and cloud-native technologies? Do you love to innovate on behalf of customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Hong Kong Solutions Architecture team as a Solutions Architect.

In this role, you'll be the driving force behind the technology that powers our customers' key business outcomes. From early-stage startups building their initial products to established enterprises migrating legacy applications to the cloud, you'll tackle a wide range of technology challenges. Your expertise will shape the technology decisions of our customers, guiding them towards best practices, and serving as a trusted technical advisor.

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.

As a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you'll be part of a team that has been at the forefront of cloud computing for over 17 years. AWS offers more than 200 fully featured services to millions of active customers worldwide, including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies. You'll work closely with Business Development teams, supporting customers in Hong Kong as they embark on their cloud journey.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner of the Business Development team, ensuring customer success in building secure, highly scalable and resilient applications on AWS.

• Provide technical & architectural guidance to digital native companies and help develop cost optimization strategies by deploying the right architecture and AWS pricing models.

• Influence customer C-levels and decision makers through technology angles, roadmap briefings and office hours with their teams. Scope customer engagements, defining clear objectives and success criteria.

• Collaborate closely with customers and internal teams to align resources and actions towards the goal of successful production launch and operational excellence.

• Conduct workshops and training sessions for the wider AWS customer base in key marketing events.

A day in the life

AWS is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace to deliver the best results for our customers. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status; we celebrate the diverse ways we work. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team.

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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 (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.

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

Causeway Bay, HKG

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in large-scale system architecture design or application development of complex IT solutions.

• Knowledge of the latest technology trends in open-source, distributed databases, containers, devops, real-time analytics, or Generative AI.

• In-depth working knowledge in one or more technology domains such as web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), highly secured workloads, GenAI, etc.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must (English / Cantonese), strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with IT professionals and business executives.

• Strong ability to work effectively and collaborate across internal and external organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT projects - either on premises or in the cloud.

• Working knowledge of software development practices and cloud native architectures highly desired.

• Able to create technical content / sample codes that can be easily adopted and reusable by others.

• Experience working in a customer-facing role, or internal role that needs to deal with lots of stakeholders.

• AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certifications.