Job Description

• Background in cloud architecture, solutions design, and solution implementation plus knowledge of any of the following: Product Management, Systems Design, Data Engineering, Software Development, or DevOps.
• Have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with business-fluent English, to be able to drive discussions in a customer organisation, as well as the technical background that enables you to easily interact with and give guidance to customers working in operational roles.
• A passion for technology and for learning.

Travel expected between 30 to 40% across Asia Pacific and Japan
Job summary
Ever wished you could use technology to help organisations solve problems at the core of their mission.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Industry Solutions Team (IST) is looking for a customer obsessed Solutions Architect with industry experience, technical breadth and depth, a passion for business challenges and product development, and an entrepreneurial spirit, to join our thriving technical community and growing business.
Industry architects understand the business and technical landscape that are relevant to customers, and are able to conceive, design and validate architectures and solutions that are relevant to customer goals. We expect industry architects to create solutions specific to industry verticals, composing solutions from partners, AWS services and bespoke integration to complete the solution.
You will join a dynamic, agile and entrepreneurial team, working together to bring the latest in disruptive repeatable cloud-based solutions to organizations serving our Public Sector customers in Government Services, Education, Healthcare, Research, Utilities, and Not For Profit.
We work backwards from a customer's desired business outcome, to establish repeatable solutions that help customers to achieve their business goals leveraging our unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
As an AWS Solutions Architect within the Industry Solutions Team, you will work, in partnership with our industry aligned Technical Business Developers (Tech BD) and AWS Partners to identify, validate and package solutions for our Public Sector customers. You will coordinate the technical effort to compose these solutions in conjunction with partners, AWS Professional Services, and AWS engineering teams.
Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.
In this role, your creativity will link business challenges to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define cloud-native reference solutions with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
A day in the life
About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing and building, solutions - for deployment either on premises or in the cloud.
• Working knowledge of full stack development principles and cloud native architectures.
• Working knowledge of multiple technology domains, such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, analytics, Machine Learning.
• Experience working in a customer-facing role.
• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification.