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DESCRIPTION

Do you want to help define the future of Go to Market (GTM) of Machine Learning and Generative AI (GenAI) at AWS? Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations focused on some of the most exciting technological innovations customers are building? The AWS APJ team is looking for an experienced technical leader to drive the GTM for the next evolution of Generative AI model building and training customers across APJ.

As the Technical Leader, you will be responsible for leading the GTM strategy for customers building the next generation LLMs. This role will work in conjunction with AWS Service Teams, Regional Solution Architecture teams, Worldwide Machine Learning Frameworks team, Regional Leadership and APJ Specialist teams. You will be working directly with customers (across segments) in the GenAI model training and inference space helping them build, train and scale their own Large Language Models (LLMs) on AWS. Activities will include, model performance evaluations, develop proof-of-concepts, developing GTM plans, and external/internal evangelism.

You will possess a technical and business background that enables you to drive an engagement and interact at the highest levels with start-ups, Enterprises, and AWS partners. You will have the technical depth and business experience to easily articulate the potential and challenges of GenAI models and applications to engineering teams and C-Level executives. This requires deep familiarity across the stack – compute infrastructure (Amazon EC2, Amazon EKA), ML frameworks PyTorch, JAX, orchestration layers Kubernetes and Slurm, parallel computing (NCCL, MPI), MLOPs, through to Amazon SageMaker Hyperpod, Amazon Bedrock as well as target use cases in the cloud.

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of technological transformations, as a key technical leader. Additionally, you will work with the AWS Generative AI and EC2 product teams to shape product vision and prioritize features for ML Frameworks and applications. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and being scrappy is a must.

Key job responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform. Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.
• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.
• Develop and own the GTM plan that will identify target customer segments, partnership opportunities, roadblocks and risks with initial launch, success criteria for launch and the investment strategy.

A day in the life

As a Principal Solutions Architects work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities. They have a leading role in developing both the strategy and the team itself. They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to speed-up innovation across their customer segment. Externally, they are recognized thought leaders and influence the strategy of our customers. Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Why AWS?

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Work/Life Balance

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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