The AI revolution is changing everything. This disruption is occurring everywhere, fueled by rapidly evolving technologies that will impact virtually all industries, from consumer products, retail and healthcare to highly complex industrial engineering like automotive and aerospace. AWS is uniquely positioned to help our customers build the agility required to compete in these evolving marketplaces.
Core to Amazon’s innovation DNA is its methodology for executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest and most cost effective way to prove new ideas, technologies and business models in a real-world environment.
Our Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) capability is designed to help our customers leverage this new way of working to deliver tangible technology and business outcomes using lean principles, iterative AI/GenAI powered agile development, agentic approaches through multi-functional teams and a lightweight rapid development cycle.
The role of a Prototyping Architect is to apply these methods to assemble and deliver technology and business outcomes for the world’s leading clients.
Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset, constantly challenge the norm and looking for better solutions? Do you have an AI first mindset with a lean startup mentality, a good imagination and startup commercial acumen? Are you passionate about technology, understand systems architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies?
Have you built a reputation for innovation, using technology, across the full stack, creatively to solve business problems? Do you naturally build strong relationships with colleagues and work collaboratively to bring solutions to the market?
Amazon is seeking a Prototyping Architect with strong development skills to join the Australian / New Zealand (ANZ) AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. As part of an agile AI enabled development team you will support AWS customers to develop prototypes specific to their articulated strategic vision for new products and services.
So, if you are someone who innovates, likes solving hard problems and working on leading innovative technology, we would love to have you on the team! The prototyping team is a hands-on team of cross functional developers supporting AWS customers to build rapid MVP experiments adapted to their specific, innovation focused, use cases. The job will cover Australia and New Zealand customers, with some traveling to customer sites and occasional international travel.
Key job responsibilities
In this position, you will play a pivotal role in building ground breaking capabilities, maintaining operational excellence through a strong Amazonian devops culture, and championing the needs of the customer.
We are seeking passionate Prototyping Architects with proven and demonstrable skill and expert knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, database design and implementation, API design and implementation and security. Key language skills Python, Javascript/Typescript.
The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating technology outcomes that are robust. A commitment to team work, agility and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance technical outcomes requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
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.
IDE statement:
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