Job Responsibilities

• Core focus will be on integrating cloud solutions with existing on-premise infrastructure and applications managed by AsiaPac. This involves designing secure and reliable hybrid cloud architectures that seamlessly connect various components.
• Define and oversee the organization's cloud computing strategy, including cloud adoption plans, cloud management, and cost optimization.
• Lead and mentor a team of cloud architects.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from technical staff to senior management.
• Optimize its technology investments to reduce costs.
• Working in partnership with the sales teams, lead the pre-sales engagement with customers to understand desired customer outcomes, technical objectives, and services requirements.
• Lead discovery workshops with customers to understand their business and technical drivers including application onboarding discovery of deployment-ready application workloads.
• Ensure that proposals, solution designs and Statements Of Work are technically sound and competitive.
• Provide Architecture Design, review and guidance for Public Cloud application including; monitoring, management, disaster recovery, security compliance/auditing, networking, storage, service brokers and build packs.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging cloud technologies and best practices, recommending and implementing them when appropriate.
• Analyze business requirements and identify areas where technology can be used to improve efficiency and productivity.

Job Requirements

• 5+ year experience in Hybrid Cloud architecture, design and implementation of critical applications.
• 3+ years’ experience with Hyperscalers (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Pre-sales Consulting experience, including time supporting sales and liaising with technical practices and delivery will be an added advantage.
• Strong technical knowledge with a clear understanding of cloud services and deployment models
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills (written & verbal) in English
• Experience as a team leader in a dynamic and fast pace environment
• Having experience to work on large scale, complex projects
• Hands-on experience with public cloud required
• Certified AWS Solution Architect Professional or Azure Solution Architect Expert will be an added advantage

Key Responsibilities

• Coach product teams and Product Owners on product discovery

• Grow and support product owners to become better product thinkers and leaders:

o Set the direction and develop the leadership skills required to become an effective product leader.

o Design and grow a flexible and adaptable product organisation around empowered product teams.

o Develop people and drive a modern product management practice.

• Help refine the structure of the coaching framework we have created to improve how our company build a product that continuously delivers value to its customers.

• Improve teams and business ability to ship quality products.

• Provide product insights and collaborative decision-making to help the team when faced with challenges with a shared focus that is aligned with our values and strategy by unifying a high-performing team.

• Implement the Agile process, principles, and practices across all units in the organisation, by using techniques that promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.

• Practise Agile such that it changes the culture and work processes of the organization to be more efficient and value-adding. Embody the Agile principles and lead by example.

• Explore and experiment with enterprise scaling of agile and business agility

• Maintain a Centre of Excellence on Agile/Digital Culture and Product Management practices.

• Conduct Agile Product Development-related training curriculum suitable for the organisation.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields

• Minimum 5 years of product manager or product designer experience.

• Significant experience in a product leadership role with strong coaching and people development ability

• Practical experience in product discovery techniques, data-informed product management, experimentation, and hypothesis-driven development.

• Scrum.org Product Owner certification (PSPO II) or Professional Scrum with UX (PSU)

• Demonstrates strong knowledge of agile concepts and approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, OKR, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup.

• Being strategic and highly practical. Able to adapt the methods to the organisational reality for best outcomes.

• Possess experience in coaching teams in agile adoption, enthusiastic about Agile practices and their benefits.

• Ability to weave in and out of Facilitating, Coaching, Teaching, Mentoring and Advising stances.

• Exceptional influencing skills to achieve organisational cooperation, buy-in, and engagement from senior management, BUs and internal stakeholders.