Work directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs, analyze results, and communicate findings to senior leadership in the Tokyo-based Japan Central Ops role.
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This Senior Solutions Architect role sits in AWS's Japan Public Sector Tech Business Unit, working with national security customers including the Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces. The role leads design and proposal of secure cloud solutions built on AWS technology, acting as a trusted technical advisor on mission-critical challenges spanning cloud, AI/ML, generative AI, data analytics, and security. Responsibilities include designing architectures with these technologies, promoting AWS value and cloud adoption, collaborating with sales and service teams, running AWS Well-Architected reviews, feeding requirements back to AWS service teams, producing technical content, and building deep customer trust. Requires 7+ years of development, architecture, consulting, or system proposal/build experience, plus 5+ years designing, implementing, or consulting on applications or infrastructure, including broad experience in technical pre-sales, requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, and incident response for public-sector customers. Native-level Japanese is required, along with basic reading and writing ability in English for technical documents. Preferred: experience with defense/national-security organizations, large-scale infrastructure and database architecture, enterprise cloud/virtualization deployments, AWS or other cloud platforms, AI/ML and generative AI, security architecture (zero trust, encryption, access control), ISMAP/ISO 27001/NIST SP 800 knowledge, and relevant certifications.
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