DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about helping Partners succeed? AWS is seeking a Senior Partner Solutions Architect to support our Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). In this role, you’ll help AWS Partners across the region build world-class Managed Services practices by defining technical standards, providing architectural guidance, and enabling Partners to better serve our customers.
Working closely with the WW MSP PSA and Program team, you’ll help shape the program’s direction to ensure our Partners can deliver exceptional outcomes for AWS customers. You’ll be the technical escalation point in APJ for Partner validations and drive continuous improvements to the program’s technical standards.
At AWS, we hold ourselves to high standards. You should be comfortable working backwards from customer needs, making data-driven decisions, and diving deep into complex technical challenges while maintaining a strong bias for action.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the creation and execution of the technical strategy for the AWS MSP Program in APJ
• Drive improvements in Partners’ technical capabilities through scalable mechanisms
• Define technical validation criteria and best practices for the MSP Program
• Build and lead a community of Solutions Architects focused on MSP enablement
• Work backwards from Partner needs to influence AWS service roadmaps
• Author technical content, deliver presentations, and create enablement materials
• Provide technical guidance to strategic MSP Partners

A day in the life
This individual contributor role requires collaboration with stakeholders across APJ and globally. Travel to Partner and AWS events will be required approximately 5-10 times annually both within APJ and globally.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Deep technical expertise across AWS services
• Experience with managed services, cloud operations, and enterprise architecture
• Strong track record of technical leadership and community building
• Professional level fluency in written and spoken English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical management consulting experience
• Experience working with C-level executives to define organization-wide technical strategies
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• Own the creation and execution of the technical strategy for the AWS MSP Program in APJ
• Drive improvements in Partners’ technical capabilities through scalable mechanisms
• Define technical validation criteria and best practices for the MSP Program
• Build and lead a community of Solutions Architects focused on MSP enablement
• Work backwards from Partner needs to influence AWS service roadmaps
• Author technical content, deliver presentations, and create enablement materials
• Provide technical guidance to strategic MSP Partner