AWS Solutions Architect Manager

Who you are

• The ideal candidate has experience building, managing and developing talented teams of both senior and early career engineers, technical consultants, solutions architects or equivalent technical professionals
• Customer-facing experience is preferred, and practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have sound management skills and a strong technical foundation in secure, scalable and reliable IT architectures
• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Eligible and willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks to SC level
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• AWS Professional level certification
• Cloud Technology Certification

What the job involves

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced technical manager to lead a solutions architecture team that helps UK Public Sector Transport and Central Government customers succeed using AWS technologies
• In this role, you will hire and develop some of the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects, coach them on cloud adoption best practices, empower them to further develop their technical areas of depth as well as their communication, presentation and strategic advisory skills
• You will be partnering with other teams within AWS such as account management, service teams, marketing, and professional services, prioritizing your initiatives and aligning goals to long term value
• You and your team will shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS services within Transport and Central Government
• You will be interacting directly with customers to better understand their needs and align the right resources and tools to increase their success
• You will be measuring and delivering results, while staying in touch with the pace of innovation of the AWS technology and its use cases
• You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right so that you can shape the customer and solutions-focused initiatives of your team
• You will get to practice your creativity in linking technology to tangible solutions and educating customers about the art of the possible
• Central to this will be supporting Solutions Architects to innovative reference architectures for a variety of use cases
• The pace of change is fast at AWS and the successful candidate will be expected to show flexibility and adapt to changing customer alignments in the future
• At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer
• We value your passion to discover, invent and build on behalf of customers
• Hire, on-board, train, and continuously develop Solutions Architects and Solution Architecture Managers; you will support development of great people
• Coach Solutions Architects to conduct technical sessions so they can transfer their technical skills to a diverse set of customers considering or using AWS
• In partnership with account teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to enable and accelerate adoption of AWS
• Thought leadership that inspires customers through public speaking, workshops and written content
• Develop and own senior level technical customer relationships
• Own the technical strategy that will increase customer value and adoption of well-architected AWS solutions across UK Transport and Central Government customers
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams, partners, professional services and support