Senior Data & AI Cloud Architect, AWS Professional Services FSI, AWS Professional Services FSI

As a Senior Data & AI Cloud Architect in FSI for Data AI/ML and Generative AI you will serve as a pivotal technology and strategic advisor for AWSs key FSI customers across the ANZ region. This role will be part of ProServe Sales. This role requires a deep understanding of AWS technologies data architectures AI/ML and the broader technology ecosystem. You will engage directly with CDOs CDAOs CTOs and CIOs to drive strategic data and generative AI initiatives ensuring that AWS services align with and enhance our customers IT and business strategies. Your expertise will help our customers enhance their innovation speed IT efficiency and the business value derived from their technological investments.

In this role the candidate should have hands-on experience in planning and executing complex data & analytics engagements architecting and implementing complex Cloud Native platforms and providing consultancy. This coupled with cross-industry business acumen will be used to guide and own the sales and delivery of ProServe engagements.

This role will partner with ProServe Sales and AWS Global Sales (AGS) to accelerate customer outcomes and AWS platform adoption.

Key job responsibilities
Strategic Direction and Development:

Define and develop overall strategic direction for AWS customers and internal AWS teams designing building optimizing transforming or otherwise migrating applications software and services on the AWS platform.
Partner with AWS Account Manager and ProServe Sales on accelerating innovation account strategy and technical execution aligning to increase business value through cloud adoption covering people processes and technology aspects.
Engage with C-level executives to guide their strategic technology initiatives and support their data transformation journeys.
Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class data solutions and products built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customer organizations to enable them to become cloud advocates.

Leadership and Collaboration:

Drive the development of outcome-based business-IT solution proposals in collaboration with sales and solution architecture teams.
Act as the AWS executive technical sponsor for strategic customer initiatives ensuring alignment with AWSs Global Service offerings and the customers strategic goals.
Ensure that solutions across strategic programs adhere to AWSs enterprise architecture and security best practices and principles and achieve intended business outcomes.
Mentor and lead internal teams fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
Capture and share best-practice knowledge sales and delivery content amongst the AWS Professional Services community.

Partnership Development:

Engage with system integrators and strategic Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across various customer scenarios to enhance solution offerings.
Identify common patterns in customer needs to drive standardization and repeatability in AWS solutions.

- 7 years of technical specialist design and architecture experience
- 5 years of database (eg. SQL NoSQL Hadoop Spark Kafka Kinesis) experience
- 7 years of consulting design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience
- 5 years of software development with object oriented language experience
- 3 years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent) system network and operating system experience
- 7 years of external or internal customer facing complex and large scale project management experience
- Bachelors degree or 7 years of professional or military experience

- Experience in machine learning data mining information retrieval statistics or natural language processing or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs Neuron TPU or other AI acceleration hardware
- Knowledge of technical skills such as coding / statistics (python R Django Spark etc.) data visualization research
- AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification or Cloud Technology Certification
- Hands-on technical experience & expertise in technology automation implementation integration and/or deployment.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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