Head of SWAT Solutions Architecture

Amazon Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr SA Manager for SWAT to lead a team of Solutions Architects serving our largest software and technology customers.

You will partner with sellers, guide customers in architecture best practices, and drive migrations and modernizations on AWS to achieve business outcomes. You will coach and develop your team, build strong relationships with customer executives, and help scale knowledge across the organization through publications and speaking engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of management experience leading technical, enterprise-facing resources.
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Experience architecting solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Hire, on-board, train, and develop Solutions Architects including Principal Solutions Architects.
• Coach team to transfer deep technical knowledge to 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

Leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architectures

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr SA Manager for SWAT to lead a team of Solutions Architects serving our largest software and technology customers.

You will partner with sellers, guide customers in architecture best practices, and drive migrations and modernizations on AWS to achieve business outcomes. You will coach and develop your team, build strong relationships with customer executives, and help scale knowledge across the organization through publications and speaking engagements.