Manager, Solutions Architecture

5+ years in a technical management role
- Experience leading or advising on large complex cloud transformations
- Adept communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Success hiring, developing, and retaining high quality technical talent
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills in English

At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. At AWS, we believe in thinking big, we're looking for someone motivated to be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenges that impact the business and help build the future with us.

As a Manager, Solutions Architect you will partner with customers, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with sales, you should help drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you should help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions. You should seek out opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broaden the use of the AWS platform across the customer's organization. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

**Responsibilities**:

- Serve as a leader for the SA team, and a key member of the business development team.
- Hire, enable, and develop an industry-leading team of solutions architects
- Build deep relationships with customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads that support their digital transformation and journey to the cloud.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- Contribute to AWS internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge.
- Act as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support to address customer needs.

Travel requirements:
We offer a flexible work environment to help you balance your work and personal life, while still remaining customer obsessed.

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- Experience designing, architecting/operating solutions built on AWS or other public cloud platforms
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience

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