The ASEAN Specialist team at AWS is hiring a Principal Data Transformation Architect to partner with our most strategic enterprise customers across the region. You'll serve as a trusted transformation advisor - combining deep technical expertise in data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML with strategic business acumen to drive enterprise-wide platform decisions and transformation outcomes. If you're energised by being a data and analytics thought leader, serving as a trusted advisor on data strategy to C-suite executives, architecting complex data and AI solutions at scale, and navigating competitive platform migrations across diverse ASEAN markets, we'd love to hear from you.
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Key job responsibilities As a Principal Data Transformation Architect in the ASEAN Specialist Team, you bring deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, analytics modernisation, and AI/ML that will help us address the strategic transformation needs of our largest customers. You will be the go-to person for driving data and AI platform decisions at the executive level. In this role you will be:
Serving as the primary transformation architect for C-suite executives (CIOs, CDOs, CTOs), driving strategic platform decisions through deep business understanding and technical conviction.
Leading complex data and AI transformation initiatives spanning data platform migrations, analytics modernisation, and generative AI adoption across ASEAN's most strategic enterprises.
Architecting solutions that address immediate needs while building foundations for long-term success, including developing reference architectures and establishing data governance frameworks.
Driving competitive platform migrations and securing strategic commitments from enterprise accounts.
Developing transformation methodologies and reusable patterns that can be applied across the region to scale impact.
A day in the life What does a day in the life of a Data Transformation Architect look like? You will:
Engage directly with C-suite executives to align transformation roadmaps with business outcomes and drive strategic platform decisions in AWS's favour.
Navigate complex competitive dynamics with incumbent data platforms, articulating AWS's differentiated value for enterprise data and AI workloads.
Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions - spanning data lakes, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI - tailored to customer business context and regulatory requirements.
Conduct executive advisory reviews with senior data and AI leaders, focusing on transformation progress and strategic commitments.
Collaborate with field teams, in-country specialist SAs, and account teams to orchestrate execution and ensure sustained customer success.
Coach and uplift the broader SA team by establishing the strategic and technical bar for complex customer engagements.
Create mechanisms - transformation frameworks, reference architectures, and enablement content - that help you scale proven patterns across the region.
Represent AWS at executive forums, industry conferences, and customer events.
About the team The ASEAN Specialist Team is a group of domain experts who bring deep technical expertise across their respective technology areas. As a Specialist SA, you operate across the full customer engagement lifecycle, from early-stage strategic advisory to production-ready design, serving as a trusted advisor to customers and a key contributor to ASEAN's technology strategy. You'll work alongside specialists in data, analytics, AI/ML, and application modernisation, in a team that values builder culture, intellectual curiosity, and customer obsession.
Basic Qualifications
- Knowledge of AWS or cloud technologies
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, and analytics solution design.
- Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing C-suite executives (CIO, CDO, CTO) on technology strategy and transformation decisions.
- Deep understanding of modern data platforms including data lakes, data warehouses, streaming architectures, and lakehouse patterns.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale data platform migrations or modernisation initiatives.
- Understanding of data governance, data sovereignty, and regulatory compliance frameworks relevant to ASEAN markets.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading large enterprise transformations with AWS/cloud services
- Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, including model development lifecycle, MLOps, and generative AI foundations, with the ability to bring in AI where suitable to complement data and analytics initiatives.
- Experience driving competitive platform migrations from incumbent data platforms (e.g., Teradata, Oracle, Cloudera, Snowflake, Databricks) to AWS.
- Track record of influencing large customer pursuits through strategic advisory and transformation initiatives.
- Experience working across multiple ASEAN markets with an understanding of regional business dynamics and regulatory landscapes.
- Industry/Cloud certifications including AWS certifications (e.g., Data Analytics Specialty, Machine Learning Specialty, Solutions Architect Professional).
- Technology breadth, including understanding of analytics, AI/ML, data engineering, and modern application architectures.
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