Technical Business Developer, Subsea Business Development
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About the Role
Amazon Web Services is seeking a highly motivated Technical Subsea Network Business Developer to help build and scale one of the world's largest and most complex networks.
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Responsibilities
- Plan and build subsea backbone capacity in close coordination with other team members
- Work closely with various Amazon business units to gather, refine and drive program goals to develop submarine cable projects
- Implement new processes and procedures driving continuous improvement while interacting with a broad range of stakeholders
- Organize, track, and coordinate with vendors and internal and external teams to deliver new subsea backbone capacity
- Collaborate with capacity planners and engineers to ensure efficient and cost effective network topology
- Collaborate with internal teams including business development, finance, tax, legal, and deployment to implement plans
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 10+ years subsea industry experience with extensive knowledge of fiber optic networks and submarine cables
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DESCRIPTION
- Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Technical Subsea Network Business Developer to help build and scale one of the world’s largest and most complex networks.
Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to develop submarine cable projects across the globe
- Organize, track, and coordinate with vendors and internal and external teams to deliver new subsea backbone capacity for Amazon
- Work with capacity planners and engineers to ensure the most efficient and cost effective network topology is developed and delivered
- Collaborate with a wide variety of internal teams including business development, finance, tax, legal, and deployment to successful implement their plans
A day in the life
- Our projects are multi year in duration, requiring careful planning, disciplined execution and with a growing program, constant invention and simplification
- We work with internal and external stakeholders and partners, driving projects to meet our goals and timelines
- We ensure that the delivery of the projects meet our high standards and specifications
- When faced with an issue or delay, we invent to solve for the roadblock alerting our customers along the way
- Communications are crisp, timely and always advise a path forward
- We learn from each other, ensuring global consistency
About the team
- The Subsea Backbone team is responsible for all aspects of submarine network deployment, operation, upgrades and management within AWS
- We own the technology roadmap and standards for submarine cable, optical fiber, installation methods, procurement of the optical equipment, RSPC and associated operational models and security postures
- We define the contractual framework for all required elements adding capacity that supports the AWS Backbone Network for our customers
- The team works closely with the Regional Business Development teams to deliver submarine capacity to a global standard, enabling economic and scalable consistency for all our customers
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 10+ years subsea industry experience with extensive knowledge of fiber optic networks and submarine cables
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working with Agile project management methodologies
- Experience with automation and any version control tools, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in managing and troubleshooting network and experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service
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