Partner Solutions Architect, Partner Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services, an Company, has been the world's leading cloud provider for more than 17 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. We have over 200 fully featured cloud services, managed from 99 availability zones within 31 geographic regions across the globe. Millions of customers in over 240 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in Amazon Web Services to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

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 Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Amazon Web Services came to China in 2013, and has been relentlessly investing and expanding our infrastructure and business since then. Amazon Web Services launched its China (Beijing) Region (operated by Sinnet) in September 2016 and its China (Ningxia) Region (operated by NWCD) in December 2017. In 2019, Amazon Web Services added a new region in Hong Kong, making China the only country with three Amazon Web Services regions aside from the U.S. In 2022, Amazon Web Services launched Local Zone in Taipei. Amazon Web Services has also established an AI lab in Shanghai and two IoT labs in Shenzhen and Taipei. The Amazon Web Services Partner Network has thousands of Partners in China. Amazon Web Services has supported over 10,000 local startups and has provided cloud skills training to over 700,000 talents. Amazon's first two utility-scale renewable projects—a solar farm and a wind farm—are also generating clean energy to the country's grid.

Key job responsibilities

The PSA (Partner Solutions Architect) team is responsible for managing the technical relationship with our partners as it relates to the products and services they are offering to their – or our joint – customer. As the technical counterparts the PDMs (Partner Development Manager), they engage in activities that aim to further convince partners that AWS is the best cloud provider for running their workloads, they educate the technical staff of the partners, and dive-deep into architectural designs, advising the partners as they build. As such, PSAs were many hats, from CTO to evangelist, architect and builder.As SAP PSA will develop/recruit/support AWS partners related to SAP, guide AWS SI partners to explore/validate/deliver SAP on AWS projects.

Would you like to work with some of China most innovative AWS partners? Would you like to help a range of different AWS partners grow and improve their capability on AWS?

As a Partner Solutions Architect focused on the China market within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS across the partner community. Working backwards from customer business challenges, you will define partner technical enablement strategies which enable our customers and partners to become more successful on AWS.

Working with partners is a team effort that will require influence and coordination with many senior stakeholders within partners and AWS. You should be just as comfortable talking AWS Cloud and SAP with the Head of Infrastructure or Continuous Deployment with the DevOps team, TCO with the CFO, and cloud strategy with the CIO.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate:

• Deep technical skills in Solution Architecture and SAP tech domain and AWS Cloud
• Customer and partner CxO facing skills, ideally gained within a partner organization.
• The ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

A day in the life

The PSA (Partner Solutions Architect) team is responsible for managing the technical relationship with our partners as it relates to the products and services they are offering to their – or our joint – customer. As the technical counterparts the PDMs (Partner Development Manager), they engage in activities that aim to further convince partners that AWS is the best cloud provider for running their workloads, they educate the technical staff of the partners, and dive-deep into architectural designs, advising the partners as they build. As such, PSAs were many hats, from CTO to evangelist, architect and builder.

Would you like to work with some of China most innovative AWS partners? Would you like to help a range of different AWS partners grow and improve their capability on AWS?

As a Partner Solutions Architect focused on the China market within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS across the partner community. Working backwards from customer business challenges, you will define partner technical enablement strategies which enable our customers and partners to become more successful on AWS.

Working with partners is a team effort that will require influence and coordination with many senior stakeholders within partners and AWS.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate:

• Experience in Cloud Solution Architecture
• Experience in Application Modernization
• Experience in Data Analytics or AI
• Customer and partner CxO facing skills, ideally gained within a partner organization
• The ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 2+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective