Description

ASEAN MMSA (Migration and Modernization SA) team is looking for experienced Solution Architect who can build successful technical partnership with AWS customers to drive migration and modernization of their workloads on AWS leveraging the breadth of expertise in private and public Cloud Computing (i.e. AWS platform), technologies and architectural best practices.

The candidate is expected to interact with senior technical and business stakeholders, become a trusted advisor to these customers, and help them make informed decisions on their cloud strategy.

The candidate should be able to host, facilitate and conduct technical workshops, labs and hand-on programs for the customers to learn different services and skills required to migrate & modernize on AWS.

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

• 5-12 years of IT experience most of which will have been in helping sell and / or manage mid-large size projects (such as datacenter and cloud migrations projects / migrations / application modernization / DB porting etc.).

• Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services onto the AWS platform

• Build repeatable mechanisms, architectures, solutions, and playbooks to enable faster, cheaper, predictable, and risk-free workload migrations to AWS

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

• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community

• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices

• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS

• Work with the team to organize technical workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across teams

• Strategy & Innovation: articulate business/industry fundamentals (e.g., ROI, TCO, cost benefit analysis); understand regulations and operational excellence; familiarity with trends in the IT industry (e.g., CI/CD, Migration, AI…etc.)

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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

Singapore, SGP

Basic Qualifications

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

• 2+ 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

• 3+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective