Technical Business Developer, Subsea Engineering

Amazon; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in the City of London seeks a Technical Business Developer for subsea cable projects. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure project success and implementing processes for continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has a background in the subsea industry, strong project management skills, and experience with fiber optic networks.

Qualifications

• 5 years of subsea industry experience.
• Experience with subsea telecoms agreements.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement submarine cable projects.
• Manage relationships with strategic suppliers.
• Ensure project delivery meets high standards.

Skills

Subsea industry experience

Knowledge of fiber optic networks

Project management

Negotiation skills

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Technical Business Developer, Subsea Engineering

Job ID: 3048846 | Amazon Data Services UK Limited

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Technical Subsea Network Business Developer to help build and scale one of the world’s largest and most complex networks. This role, within the Global Connectivity Infrastructure Development (GCID) organization, is responsible for planning and building subsea backbone capacity in close coordination with other team members. The candidate should be self-driven, have the ability to learn quickly and influence decision-making across organizations. In this position, you will work closely with various Amazon business units to gather, refine and drive program goals to develop and deliver submarine cable projects. You will have the opportunity to implement new processes and procedures driving continuous improvement while interacting with a broad range of stakeholders across Amazon.

Our Technical Business Developers are responsible for sourcing and planning, but also assisting in delivery, and have ownership of our network acquisition, implementation strategy and the maintenance of relationships with strategic suppliers to expand and grow Amazon's AWS footprint worldwide. By applying a unique blend of business and technology experience, you will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to find creative, cost effective, and often unusual solutions to meet Amazon's ongoing growth and expansion needs worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• In this position, the candidate will work closely with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement submarine cable projects across the globe.
• The candidate will organize, track, and coordinate with vendors and internal and external teams to deliver new subsea backbone capacity for Amazon.
• They will work with capacity planners and engineers to ensure the most efficient and cost effective network topology is developed and delivered.
• The candidate will collaborate with a wide variety of internal teams including business development, finance, tax, legal, and deployment, to successfully implement their plans.

A day in the life

• Our projects are multi-year in duration, requiring careful planning, disciplined execution and with a growing program, constant invention and simplification.
• We work with internal and external stakeholders and partners, driving projects to meet our goals and timelines.
• We ensure that the delivery of the projects from concept to operation meet our high standards and specifications.
• When faced with an issue or delay, we invent to solve for the roadblock, alerting our customers along the way. Communications are crisp, timely and always advise a path forward.
• We learn from each other, ensuring global consistency.

The Subsea Backbone team is responsible for all aspects of submarine network deployment, operation, upgrades and management within AWS. We own the technology roadmap and standards for submarine fibre optic cable, installation methods, procurement of the SLTE, RSPC and associated operational models and security postures. The team works closely with the Regional Business Development teams to deliver submarine capacity to a global standard, enabling economic and scalable consistency for all our customers.

About the team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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.

About 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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience and 5-years subsea industry experience with extensive knowledge of fiber optic networks and submarine cables
• Experience developing, negotiating and executing subsea telecoms agreements, as well as managing programs across cross functional teams
• Program management experience relevant to subsea telecoms and strong organizational, multitasking, prioritization abilities, as well as an excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to merge traditional project management with agile processes and experience in automation, operational excellence, or continuous improvement techniques
• Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented, opinionated team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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