Senior Solutions Architecture Manager, Amazon

• 7+ years experience in direct management of customer facing technical resources
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related degree
• 10+ years of technology related pre-sales, technology consulting, or business development experience
• 5+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Strong verbal and written communications skills

Desirable

• Your responsibilities will include thought leadership and driving value creation for our customers, shaping technical solutions, growing the team, and leading specific customer engagement and interaction at the Director, VP and C-level
• You should also be a self-starter who is prepared to own, define, develop, and execute a customer-outcome plan
• You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our sales, support, services teams, business development, marketing, partners, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solution Architect Leaders from internal and external sources
• Build and coach the team on the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Guide and motivate the development of white-papers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
• Expect moderate travel
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support