Cloud Architect

Requisition Number: 206491

External Description:

 

Our Cloud Architects are highly respected for their knowledge, skills and empathy to meet our customers’ business challenges through the use of data and analytics at scale, embracing the new and innovative solutions Cloud enables. And as our customers rank among the best and largest in their industry, including leading financial institutions, manufacturers, Telcos, retailers, airlines, major government entities and others, this respect is hard earned. We believe the best way to achieve high value outcomes for our customers is to foster a community of people who love data and the world changing possibilities that analytics and Cloud can provide.

You’ll be part of a team regional team helping account teams and customers with cloud-based solutions to their business challenges.

So, you will be smart, adaptive, curious and consultative, with a great attitude and focused on helping your customers understand how analytics in the cloud provides successful solutions for their business challenges. You will be a knowledge seeker, constantly searching and collaborating with colleagues, customers and partners. As a Cloud Architect you will thrive in a team, working closely with our account teams and global product management.

You are a good communicator, with an ability to see both the widescreen and the close-up of how technology provides solutions and opportunities for your customers. And when we say communicate, we mean you’ll be talking with everyone from the DBA to senior executives; comfortable and confident that you’ll deliver the best possible solutions for your customer. So, you will have a good deal of responsibility, but you will also have autonomy to make your own decisions, and what you will learn and gain in experience just isn’t found anywhere else.

You will be a ‘trusted advisor’ to your client; your technology leadership, experience, not forgetting your business skills, means you can seek out and develop opportunities for Teradata solutions that meet your customer’s needs. You will also keep up with our competitors’ capabilities, because your customer needs confidence in your understanding of their data challenges. We don’t expect you to be an expert in everything; in fact, we would prefer you to have wide and far-reaching knowledge and experience, with perhaps a specialism field or two that you are knowledgeable in. And whatever your particular experience, you can explain, demonstrate and deliver right across the board in your customer’s organisation.

So, if your passion for real, deliverable solutions to some of the biggest data and cloud challenges in the world matches ours, and what we’ve said appeals to your sense of adventure, come and work for us.

What you will be doing...

• You will be a part of the regional Architecture team, reporting to the regional Cloud Architecture Leader and be based in Singapore. The supported countries include Singapore, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, South Korea and Indonesia. The role also involves collaborating with Cloud and Analytic Architects within Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the greater China area.
• You will be willing to travel throughout South East Asia regularly and elsewhere as needed, but you won’t be travelling every week as there is plenty to keep you busy in Singapore
• Actively work on the design, implementation and roll-out of solutions that meet your customer’s challenges – so you’ll need to see and assess your customer’s ‘as is’ before you can provide them with their ‘to be’ solutions
• Inspire confidence in Teradata offers, software and services through your professionalism and expertise to drive sales forward
• Provide leadership to the extended Teradata account team on our cloud solutions and ensure that needs and challenges faced by our account teams are met as best as possible
• Play a key role in mentoring and development of cloud architecture practice members within the region.
• You have strong architecture consultancy (or equivalent) experience in a related industry and have cloud implementation experience.  Additionally, you should be familiar with cloud concepts and having a Certification at Architect level in one of the public cloud providers is a plus.

What skills are needed for ideal candidates

• ‘Passionate’ and enthusiastic about data, analytics and Teradata – after all, we are…
• Have at least 8+ years hands-on experience in architecting / designing / delivering analytic solutions for large enterprises in either a pre-sales or delivery role
• A clear, confident and persuasive communicator, who can make a clear and understandable logical argument and successfully defend their position
• Have a keen interest and understanding of developments in the data and analytic technology world
• Have an excellent ability to multi-task and juggle priorities while ensuring you and the teams work life balance is kept in check
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and, of course, be proficient in both written and spoken English
• Demonstrate excellent organizational and people skills
• Have a degree level qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Systems or a related discipline
• Have at least one to two year’s recent hands-on experience with architecting and delivering Cloud solutions in the context of Data & Analytic Ecosystem (BI, DWH and Big Data) in the public cloud arena

Teradata highly values diversity and equal opportunity in all aspects of our business. We are excited by the unique qualities, abilities and perspectives each person brings, and candidates are considered on all the attributes they may bring to the role and the team.

Grade and salary is commensurate with the demands of the role and based on skills and experience. And you can work from a local Teradata facility or virtually, depending upon your preference.

You will meet with customers and account teams remotely and in-person, and travel within the region will be required as needed. The role allows for some flexibility of working hours in line with the immediate needs of your customers and the account team.

 

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City: Singapore

State: Central Singapore

Community / Marketing Title: Cloud Architect

Job Category: Sales

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Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

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