Senior Manager of Specialist Solutions Architecture, Amazon

• Experience in management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc
• Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

Desirable

• This is a highly visible, customer-facing leadership role that will shape how AWS builds specialist capability and earns trust with customers across key UKI industries including financial services, retail, media, and the public sector
• As a Senior Manager, Specialist Solutions Architecture, you will lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects aligned to multiple technical domains. You will act as a strategic business partner to the Head of Specialists UKI — co-owning the specialist strategy, shaping investment priorities, and translating field signals into action. This is not a back-office leadership role: you will maintain your own technical depth and direct customer engagement, modelling the standard you expect from your team
• Your team earns trust with customers by going deep — understanding their industries, their constraints, and their ambitions — and translating that understanding into architectures that accelerate outcomes. You will build the culture, hiring bar, and mechanisms that ensure every customer interaction reinforces AWS's position as a long-term trusted technical partner
• You will define and optimise scalable acceleration mechanisms that allow the team to operate as a force multiplier across the broader field organisation and partner network. You will work in close interlock with GTM leadership, Enablement/TFC, service teams, and regional SA leadership — ensuring specialist investment is tightly coupled to customer need and business priority
• Lead, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of Specialist Solutions Architects across multiple technical domains — maaintaining personal technical depth and direct customer engagement
• Serve as the strategic business partner to the Head of Specialists UKI — co-owning strategy, shaping investment priorities, and translating customer and field signals into action
• Lead a customer-facing team that earns trust with senior stakeholders across key UKI industries and customers by going deep on their challenges and delivering architectures that accelerate outcomes
• Define and execute the team's operating model (Advancing Organisational Capabilities, Customer Advisory, Thought Leadership) and the scalable acceleration mechanisms that allow the team to operate as a force multiplier across the field and partner network
• Drive high-impact technical content, structured voice-of-customer feedback, and success metrics that demonstrate business impact — ensuring the team's expertise and technical & domain depth