Industry Product Architect – Japanese Speaking, Automotive

Industry: Solutions Architect

Company: Amazon

Do you love opportunities to combine your deep technical depth and Japanese speaking skills with the chance to transform an industry? Would you like to imagine the possible, collaborate on ideas with the top companies in the world and some of the best talent within AWS to see those ideas come to life? Candidates must possess business-level fluency in Japanese, including the ability to communicate effectively in professional settings, understand and produce complex documents, and participate in business meetings and negotiations. If so, you might be interested in joining AWS Industry Products as a Product Architect.

Key job responsibilities

Here as a Product Architect you will…

– Leverage your domain depth to develop ideas that create new innovative products, services or solutions to address real-world problems. These ideas may come from your own experiences, key customer partners, or other groups within Amazon.

– Create technology solutions and evolve them as we gain new insights and understanding. You understand how to decompose big ideas into discrete and deliverable components and often roll up your sleeves to get stuff done.

– Use your wisdom to assess whether things are doable with the knowledge of today, how they might be achievable with further development of existing solutions, or when things require new research and science.

– Keep close ties with the consumers of our services and look around corners to help us better anticipate future needs. You know how to take those insights and develop them into concrete proposals.

– Refine and advocate a ‘north star’ to guide business decision making with executives and team alignment. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. You understand how to craft a thesis and can show your work.

– Travel up to 10%, including potentially international destinations.

A day in the life

Here at AWS Industry Products (AIP), we ideate, build and evolve AWS services by applying Amazon’s culture of innovation, AWS’ digital technologies, and new breakthroughs to solve industry problems. We work in small teams staffed with leading domain experts, development teams, scientists, architects and product leaders. We use the skill and scale of AWS to make a connected world achievable for all businesses. When we succeed, we’ve built or significantly improved a readily-consumable AWS service that removes industry barriers. You will help us envision and build the right technological solutions that can scale to meet our customers needs.

About the team

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 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

– Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

– Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

– Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent

– Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent

– Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

– Professional working proficiency in Japanese

– Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

– Experience in the automotive domain

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification

– Full professional fluency in Japanese or Korean

– Experience with Software Defined Vehicle concepts and technologies

– Strong understanding of IoT, MCUs and ECUs

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.