(Senior) Cloud & AI Solution Architect

About the role

Tencent's Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG) promotes its cloud and industry Internet strategy, using cloud, AI and network security to help digitalise retail, medical, education, transportation and other sectors. This Senior Cloud & AI Solution Architect role supports Tencent Cloud's international business through consulting, solution design and pre-sales.

Key responsibilities

• Provide professional services including business technology consultation, cloud solution training and technical enablement.
• Design architecture on the Tencent Cloud platform with international architects and partners, and guide customers and partners through application and data migration.
• Coordinate product, service and operations teams to give pre-sales technical support for key partner projects and strategic opportunities.
• Help build Tencent Cloud's global technology partner ecosystem and document technical solutions and industry use cases.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher, with over 5 years of hands-on experience in public or private cloud environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders from business leaders down to engineers.
• Customer-centric, detail-oriented, self-starting with a strong sense of ownership.
• Fluent English is mandatory; proficiency in a major European language and/or Mandarin Chinese is a significant plus.

Required skills

• Solid understanding of technologies and solutions from major cloud providers.
• Professional experience in at least two of: software development (Java, Python or similar), system operations and maintenance, system integration, solution design, technical consulting, enterprise IT systems and architecture management, big data or AI.