Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture - Microsoft Azure/Emerging, Cloud Intelligence

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a field-facing CI/solutions architecture team across the western/central United States. You will manage a team of SAs, drive adoption of AWS, and influence go-to-market strategies with sales and product teams.

The role blends business and technology, requires engaging with executives, and entails building relationships with key decision makers to enable cloud adoption across multiple industries.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of managing technical, enterprise customer-facing resources.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions on cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain solutions and tactics to help customers choose AWS from a technical perspective.
• Capture and share best practices within the AWS solutions architect community.
• Develop whitepapers, data sheets, and customer-facing guidance.
• Establish relationships with decision makers to create cloud advocates.
• Collaborate with marketing and cross-functional teams on campaigns and roadmaps.
• Coach Solutions Architects and hire/train new team members.
• Interface with executive stakeholders at the CXO level.

Skills

Management of teams

Executive communication

Solution architecture leadership

Market intelligence

Cloud platforms

Business value articulation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Description

Come join a team of cloud experts focused on uncovering and articulating advantages for AWS Customers! The Sales Cycle Acceleration (SCA) team, which includes Cloud Intelligence (CI), is looking for a Senior Manager to manage a team of CI experts aligned to sales teams across the western/central United States.

Your responsibilities will include managing a team of field-facing SMEs and removing barriers to adoption of the AWS computing platform within multiple industries across the western/central United States. Your team will teach and evangelize differentiation concepts with AWS field sales teams, customers, and with cross-functional marketing, enablement, and product teams. As a strategic partner to sales and external customers, you will identify emerging signals and best practices, to serve the broader organization. This position has the opportunity to influence AWS’s sales and go-to-market strategies, as well as AWS product and development roadmaps.

This position blends business and technology skillsets. You and your team will drive complex engagements and interact with executive audiences. They also have technical competence that enables them to analyze AWS and competitor products. Candidates must have the capability to craft and convey compelling value propositions, and to communicate concepts and stories effectively.

We are looking for experience in one or more of the following: market or competitive intelligence, business value engineering, sales enablement, and customer-facing technology sales experience. The ability to successfully differentiate cloud services in competitive market segments is key.

Key job responsibilities

• As a key member of the Solutions Architect team, ensure success in building and maintaining solutions and tactics that help customers choose AWS from a technical perspective.
• 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
• Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS
• Develop and deploy sales motions and programs that leverage AWS Field Sales teams, as well as technology and consulting partner channels.
• Collaborate with the Service and Technical teams to create solutions that solve customer problems, including reference architectures, patterns, automation, release plan, etc.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop and align digital marketing campaigns to drive awareness and demand.
• Technical Thought Leadership
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct training sessions for new and existing customers
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Work with the team to organize technical workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across teams
• Strategy & Innovation: articulate business/industry fundamentals (e.g., ROI, CBA, TCO); understand regulations and operational excellence; familiarity with business strategy and trends in the IT industry (e.g., CI/CD, IoT, Predictive Analytics
• Technology Breadth: demonstrate architectural best practices applied across a breadth of technologies to solve organizational problems, articulate views/roadmaps for future development, and understand the interaction between infrastructure, operations, and development
• Interface with internal leadership and external customers at the executive CxO level
• Closely collaborate with executive stakeholders across the organization, including service teams, Business Development, Marketing, Professional Services, Training, and Operations

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

• 6+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience

• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

• A Master’s Degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent technical degree

• Experience successfully partnering with and communicating effectively to C-suite Executives on long term, highly strategic programs

• Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms with experience architecting and deploying production cloud workloads on AWS

• Enterprise Architecture experience, certifications, and building modern cloud strategies

• Experience leading architecture for multi-tower global customer transformations in areas such as mainframe, SAP, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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