Snr Cloud Architect - Global Accounts, Professional Services, AWSI-SDT-APJ-Japan

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Cloud Architect, where you will leverage your extensive experience in technical architecture and project management to deliver innovative cloud solutions. This role involves collaborating with diverse clients to guide them through complex migrations and architecture design, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. With a focus on continuous improvement and mentorship, you will thrive in an inclusive culture that values diverse experiences. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a meaningful impact in the cloud space, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Mentorship Programs

Work-Life Balance Initiatives

Inclusive Team Culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical architecture and design.
• Strong project management skills for large scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IT infrastructure and application architecture guidance.
• Collaborate with customers on cloud solutions and migrations.

Skills

Technical Architecture

Project Management

CI/CD

Database Management

Software Development

Cloud Solutions

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

7+ years of professional experience

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Snr Cloud Architect - Global Accounts, Professional Services, AWSI-SDT-APJ-Japan

Job ID: 2795312 | Amazon Web Services Japan GK

Our AWS Professional Services consultants deliver IT infrastructure and application architecture guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects, perform enterprise portfolio assessments, review operational best practices and conduct skills transfer workshops. AWS consultants collaborate with customers and partners to address security and compliance, performance and scale, availability and manageability. They advise customers on migrating existing systems and building new systems using the full range of AWS services. They also assist with the non-technical change management work on policies, processes and people changes.

At AWS, we’re looking for technical architects to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements, while helping our partners to develop technical expertise and capacity. The individual requires a strong combination of technical experience, hands-on keyboard capacity, technical leadership experience, and ability to learn fast in a fast paced environment. They will focus on customer solutions that spans across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, enterprise application migrations, HPC amongst many others.

A day in the life

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 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

• 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
• 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• 5+ years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience
• 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
• 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience
• 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders (Japanese language preferred along with English as second language)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience

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