Cloud Solutions Architecture Lead for SWAT & Enterprise

Amazon; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced Solutions Architecture Manager to lead a team of architects serving SWAT customers in the United States.

The role requires building relationships with technical executives, guiding cloud implementations, and maturing architectural practices across the organization. You will mentor architects, drive migrations and modernization efforts on AWS, and partner with sales and product teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise IT application experience.
• 2+ years architecting/operating cloud solutions.
• 8+ years delivering technology roadmaps for cloud transformations.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience leading senior technology professionals in customer-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects including Principal Solutions Architects.
• Coach Architects to transfer deep technical knowledge for SWAT customers.
• As a key member of the solutions architecture team, ensure success in building, migrating and modernizing applications, software and services on AWS.
• Ensure you and your team deliver software solutions on AWS that lead to business outcomes, including migrations to AWS and global expansion of existing customer services.
• 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.
• Partner and coach your team to partner with supporting specialist and service teams in developing solutions.
• Develop relationships with your customers' key technical executives and decision makers.
• Contribute to ideation discussions with your customers, making them aware of the AWS service capabilities.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect community.
• Coach your team to share their learning internally and externally both written and through speaking engagements.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, Service Teams and Support.
• Leverage your strong writing skills to produce high quality documents that propose new processes or inventions.
• Become an expert in AWS leadership principles and coach your team to become role models.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

Solution development

Customer engagement

Architectural guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced Solutions Architecture Manager to lead a team of architects serving SWAT customers in the United States.

The role requires building relationships with technical executives, guiding cloud implementations, and maturing architectural practices across the organization. You will mentor architects, drive migrations and modernization efforts on AWS, and partner with sales and product teams to deliver scalable solutions.