Sr. Manager, Solutions Architects, CANPS NatSec/FedCiv (AWS)

Amazon Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 194,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RRSP

DPSP

Paid time off

Employee benefits

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Manager to lead a team of Solutions Architects for the CANPS NatSec/FedCiv segment. You will coach architects, drive architectural best practices, and partner with product teams to deliver cloud solutions for Canadian Federal Government and Financial Services customers.

You will recruit, train, and scale your team while collaborating with sales, services, and marketing to accelerate AWS adoption and customer success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles.
• 5+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions on cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and develop a team of Solutions Architects for federal government, national security and financial services customers.
• Partner with sellers to drive business outcomes and revenue objectives through AWS adoption.
• Hire, onboard, train, and coach architects; share best practices through whitepapers and training.
• Guide customers and internal teams on architecture best practices and scalable solutions.
• Coordinate with service engineering, marketing and professional services to represent the team to executives.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

Solution architecture

Job description

Sr. Manager, Solutions Architects, CANPS NatSec/FedCiv

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technical leader to grow and lead a team of Solutions Architects responsible for the Canadian Federal Government, National Security and Defense, and Financial Services customers. In this role you and your team will partner with sellers as part of an account team, to drive business outcomes for your customers. You will lead, motivate, and coach your team in developing relationships with technical executives, guide customers in using architecture best practices, partner with product teams to invent new solutions on behalf of your customers, and develop internal processes. You will also coach your team in scaling their learnings through internal and external publications and speaking engagements. You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer and solutions‑focused skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

Other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy developing technical talent to achieve great things. You will have a passion for educating, training, and enabling cloud solutions experts for a diverse and challenging set of customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a Solutions Architect or similar role and managing a team of Solutions Architects. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions.

Key job responsibilities

• As a key member of the business development and sales management teams, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services onto the AWS platform
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
• Hire, on‑board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources
• Coach Solutions Architects in 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
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high‑value customer facing guidance and best practices
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience
• 5+ years of in design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.