Business Architect

Job description

DESCRIPTION

As a Business / Digital Architect, part of the Business Insights & Digital Innovation team, you will work with AWS customers’ IT executives, helping them build a cloud strategy for their Enterprise. Your mission is to analyze the business models of AWS’ customers to help them envision their opportunities for tomorrow. You act as a bridge between the value-driven vision of executives and the technology, patterns, and practices required for its achievement. By analyzing the customers’ technical, business, risk, and financial drivers, you guide them in the construction of a roadmap and migration journey that supports their core business objectives. The team comprises of experienced Business, Enterprise, and Transformation Architects.

The three key capabilities for the role are 1. Technical 2. Financial 3. Strategy. The team comprises of members with common strengths across all three areas, but typically a specialisation in one of these areas.

You leverage the deep and broad experience of AWS, a platform that supports millions of customers, to help them get the best outcomes.

In this role, you leverage both your strong understanding of technology and of business management to define end-to-end solutions for your customers. You demonstrate leadership in terms of looking beyond the pure technology aspects, considering the value that can be created by technology for our customers, and changing how technology is viewed in these customers' organization. You are adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our community of technical specialists, partners and professional services.

Key Responsibilities:
· Act as a cross-functional leader to craft executive-ready business strategies for AWS Cloud partners and customers.
· Develop Intellectual Property as the basis for publishing white papers to articulate AWS Cloud value.
· Manage relationships with regional Sales and Solution Architecture leadership to set priorities on agreement coverage and build effective enterprise best practices.
· Lead design thinking/digital transformation workshops with senior client leadership.

As the role will cover EMEA the ideal candidate can be located in other countries across Europe, ideally; UK, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, France, Switzerland.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Degree in Computing and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) preferred
· Understanding of corporate technology financial analysis and investment models (including licensing, capital, operational cash flow forecasting)
· Knowledge of value selling methodology and processes, value chain analysis, and benefits realization of technology investments

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in value engineering, strategy consulting and/or enterprise architecture
· Experience in architecting, designing or delivering digital transformation programs
· Subject matter expert in of one or multiple parts of the IT stack or development coding platforms
· Subject matter expert in one or multiple lines of business or industry verticals
· Ability to build financial models and quantitative/qualitative analysis
· Excellent verbal, written, and formal presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.