Job Description
As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Do you have a passion for cloud computing and a proven record of driving change in the automotive industry? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Senior Industry Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Do you love opportunities to combine your deep technical depth with the chance to transform an industry? Would you like to imagine the possible, collaborate on ideas with the top companies in the world and some of the best talent within AWS to see those ideas come to life? Candidates must possess business-level fluency in Japanese and English, including the ability to communicate effectively in professional settings, understand and produce complex documents, participate in business meetings and leading deeply technical workshops. If so, you might be interested in joining AWS Industry Products as a Solutions Architect.
Key job responsibilities
Here as a Solutions Architect you will...
- Leverage your domain depth to develop ideas that create new innovative products, services or solutions to address real-world problems. These ideas may come from your own experiences, key customer partners, or other groups within Amazon.
- Create technology solutions and evolve them as we gain new insights and understanding. You understand how to decompose big ideas into discrete and deliverable components and often roll up your sleeves to get stuff done.
- Use your wisdom to assess whether things are doable with the knowledge of today, how they might be achievable with further development of existing solutions, or when things require new research and science.
- Keep close ties with the consumers of our services and look around corners to help us better anticipate future needs. You know how to take those insights and develop them into concrete proposals.
- Refine and advocate a ‘north star’ to guide business decision making with executives and team alignment. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. You understand how to craft a thesis and can show your work.
- Travel up to 20%, including domestic and potentially international destinations.
A day in the life
Here at AWS Industry Products (AIP), we ideate, build and evolve AWS services by applying Amazon’s culture of innovation, AWS’ digital technologies, and new breakthroughs to solve industry problems. We work in small teams staffed with leading domain experts, development teams, scientists, architects and product leaders. We use the skill and scale of AWS to make a connected world achievable for all businesses. When we succeed, we’ve built or significantly improved a readily-consumable AWS service that removes industry barriers. You will help us envision and build the right technological solutions that can scale to meet our customers needs.
About the team
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.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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.
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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ 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
- - Professional working proficiency in Japanese and English.
- - Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
- - Experience in the automotive domain
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- - AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification.
- - Full professional fluency in Japanese and English
- - Experience with Software Defined Vehicle concepts and technologies
- - Strong understanding of IoT or data management or ML
- - Strong understanding of Automotive software solutions
- - Knowledge of large-scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
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