Product Solution Architect – China

Role Overview

• Engage with customers at early sales stages to understand business goals, technical constraints, and IT status
• Lead solution investigation, technical requirement decomposition, and feasibility assessment
• Translate business problems into executable technical solution options and architecture documentation
• Understand customer-side system architectures, data governance frameworks, and regulatory constraints
• Design integration pathways for Elsevier products in China-specific scenarios
• Lead LLM application’s architecture and design and evaluate local ecosystems’ interface with Elsevier AI solutions
• Design data integration between Elsevier products and customer systems
• Ensure proposals are viable within China-specific constraints, including network, cloud and data residency
• Ensure compliance with China regulatory requirements, including Cybersecurity Law and PIPL
• Provide technical cost and implementation complexity assessments to support business case development
• Provide solution-level technical input into RFQ and proposal processes.
• Contribute to China GTM technical strategy, including API monetisation and data-as-a-service opportunities
• Use rapid prototyping method and tools to accelerate validation cycles with all stakeholders
• Lead the design and execution of technical POCs and early demos
• Ensure demo outcomes stay within product capability boundaries while supporting business decisions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders for business initiatives, projects and operations
• Maintain alignment with global architecture standards and best practices
• Maintain documentation for architecture, design, proposals, and workflows
• Participate in architecture governance process and collaborate with team to surface risks and refine solutions
• Coach local engineering team members on architecture best practices
• Develop understanding of China research market’s AI transition, and influence customers’ technical planning
• Support collaboration across Chinese research institutions for new requirement gathering and risk prediction
• Track the China AI research tools landscape and support technically informed positioning of Elsevier solutions

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, solution design, or technical consulting
• 3+ years of experience in B2B/B2I pre-sales, pre-deal, or early-stage technical engagement roles
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Strong understanding of software engineering, architecture, system design, testing, and operation
• Proficiency in solution architecture design and architecture modelling methods
• Proficiency in programming languages including Python, Java, and scripting
• Proficiency in designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines
• Proficiency in Snowflake for data warehousing
• Rich experience of evaluating trade-offs between data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse approaches in customer integration solution design
• Rich experience with data lineage tracking, metadata management, and data classification, especially for China regulation compliance and enterprise governance
• Proficiency in integration of streaming data solution with Databricks, Spark and Kafka for data processing
• Expert of API design and integration with 3rd party systems via authentication frameworks
• Rich experience with cloud data platform and hands-on experience with programmatic data transformation
• Rich experience with deployment and operation in China available cloud platforms (AWS, or Alibaba Cloud)
• Strong technical documentation skills, including architecture documents, solution white papers, and POC reports
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)
• Rich experience with AI/LLM application design, integration, deployment and operation
• Expert of MCP and agent-integration protocol implementation with customization and compliance needs
• Experience with application’s deployment in cloud-native architecture and containerization in cloud
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks and data observability tooling
• Familiarity with China Cybersecurity Law, Personal Information Protection Law, Data Export Security Assessment regulations, and global GDPR compliance requirements in content access scenarios
• Knowledge of content security controls including DRM, dynamic watermarking, and access-permission engines
• Knowledge of enterprise data cataloguing solutions

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• ETL
• Java
• Kafka
• Python
• Spark
• Tableau

Benefits

• Medical and Life Insurance
• Long‑Service Award
• Marriage and New Baby Gifts
• Festivals and Birthday Gifts
• Annual Medical Check‑up
• Flexible Benefits via CIIC Platform
• Paid Time Off, including annual leave, family care leave, and public holidays