Prototyping Architect

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for hands-on technical architects to be part of the Digital Innovation Engineering Team based in Singapore covering South East Asia (ASEAN) market.

Do you have a builder's mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”? Are you passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms, and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with Customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate the technical feasibility of solutions?

As trusted customer advocates, the Digital Innovation Engineering team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

You will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as AI/ML, IoT, and Serverless. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role.

Some qualities that will make a person successful in this role:
· Have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers ranging, which are primarily large enterprises.
· The ideal candidate will have experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
· You combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability.
· You will often engage in the early stages of customer use-cases and even in competitive situations. Being able to deal with ambiguity; have good communication skills; and ready to go hands-on implementing a prototype on short notice. You will often be the lead technical person in the room and dealing with other senior leaders from technical and business domains.
· Push the technical bar. You should have an appetite and take the initiative to learn new topics in areas of BigData, Machine Learning, Blockchain, AR/VR, IoT, etc. in an enterprise context.
· Be great fun to work with; At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, willing to take on challenges and make a significant impact.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 10+ years of design/implementation/consulting application development experience
· Deep knowledge of software development tools, agile methodologies, active, hands-on coding, and application design experience
· Proficiency developing in one or more modern programming language;
· Full-Stack development skills: Java, Python, Javascript, GoLang, React, AngularJS, CSS, etc.); you will be expected to discuss in depth both the design and your significant contributions to one or more projects
· Ensure technical output, such as code and other artifacts, are packaged in an easily consumable and repeatable way for customers and internal teams including marketing, solutions architecture, and support
· Must be able to whiteboard technical architectures and able to quickly go hands-on keyboard implementing them.
· Strong written and verbal communication skills.
· Position requires ~25% travel