Senior Specialist SA, Developer Transformation

Amazon; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Developer Transformation (DevTx) team seeks a hands-on technologist to help developers adopt cloud-native practices and AI-driven tooling across workloads.

You will lead architecture discussions, create reference patterns, and mentor teams while speaking at events and contributing code samples. This role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, design reviews, and accelerating customer adoption of AWS services.

Qualifications

• Advanced software development and architecture experience.
• Experience communicating complex ideas to developers and executives.
• Passion for education and community-building among developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development discussions with developers, engineers, and CTOs.
• Accelerate AWS adoption through events, meetups, and communities.
• Create reference apps, starter kits, and practical guidance for developers.

Skills

C++

Go

Java

JavaScript

.NET

Node.js

Python

Ruby

Rust

Public speaking

Cloud architecture

Solution design

SDLC

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description

Developers and development teams are key influencers who steer organizational adoption of new methodologies, technologies, services and platforms. The mission of the Developer Transformation (DevTx) team is to help developers gain greater familiarity and confidence building modern, cloud-native applications that take full advantage of the latest AI-driven tools and AWS’s wide range of services. Through direct developer engagement, DevTx helps customers to address actual business problems and accelerated design, development and deployment of production quality cloud native application workloads.

Key job responsibilities

• Be an active member of the AWS Solution Architecture team by leading and influencing stakeholders in on-to-one and one-to-many application architecture and development discussions and workshops with developers, software engineers, enterprise/solution architects and CTOs
• Accelerating adoption of AWS in the student, startup and professional developer communities by engaging through conferences, startup events, meetups, user groups and hackathons
• Help lead the direction for AWS developer events to make them best-in‑class from a developer’s perspective, representing AWS through speaking, doing live demos and interacting with attendees
• Creating technical content such as reference applications, starter kits and patterns and practical guidance that will get developers excited about the potential of AWS as a development platform
• Contributing to a library of highly‑reusable developer‑focused artefacts such as demonstrations, sample code, blog posts, tutorials, and other modes of technical enablement
• Providing end‑user feedback to AWS Product Management and Engineering teams based on the developer ‘voice of the customer‘. Participate in technical and design discussions with AWS technical teams to help speed customer adoption and ensure best practices during implementation
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead hands‑on deep dives and technical workshops, contributing reusable code, reference architectures, and internal technical assets for the broader engineering organization.

If you are keen to help AWS customers adopt the latest methods, practices and tools in software development, while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.

About the team

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 Developer Transformation (DevTx) team interacts with software development teams in leading companies to innovate and deliver mission-critical business solutions on top of AWS services.

Basic Qualifications

• degree in advanced technology, or 10+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• The right person will have passion for software development, application architecture and technology in general, as well as a desire to work with, educate and inspire a community of developers
• Ability to work with all levels of customer engagement – start-ups, enterprises, mid-market, and the ability to organize and explain complex technical concepts to development teams and executive‑level audiences
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills are a must, with the ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts clearly in one‑to‑one and one‑to‑many public presentations

Preferred Qualifications

• In‑depth working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experience designing, developing, refactoring and operating distributed applications - based on event‑driven microservice architectures - that take full advantage of a leading cloud platform
• Hands‑on experience with a selection of programming languages, tools and frameworks (e.g. C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust) and cloud‑centric technology domains such as Serverless, Containers, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, high‑performance databases (SQL and NoSQL), complex networking implementations, and highly secured workloads.
• Knowledge of or experience with AI‑driven coding assistants and tools that accelerate the design, development and deployment of enterprise grade software
• Experience working in a customer‑facing role or a role which involved public speaking

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