Solutions Architect - Financial Service Industry

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This position will support important financial service industry customers in South China. Representing customers are: Top Online Brokers, Top FinTech Companies and Top FSI ISVs.

Key job responsibilities As a Solutions Architect 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 Amazon’s utility services including container, modern application, networking, database and big data etc) within enterprise accounts. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. The ideal candidate will posses customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

A day in the life

• Serve as a key technical owner of the Business Development team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
• Scope each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Own each technical engagement, capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the solution architect community.
• Understand the AWS market segments, customer base, and industry verticals.

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Basic Qualifications: - 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience - 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience - Knowledge of cloud architecture

Preferred Qualifications: - 1+ years of software development experience, or Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent - Experience working with financial services partners - Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent, or a CFA and experience in relevant finance roles - Experience in building workloads related to the financial industry, such as securities trading systems, quantitative factor mining, quantitative backtesting, payment gateways.

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