Senior Solutions Architect Lead, Software & Tech Solutions

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an experienced Solutions Architect Leader to grow and lead a team supporting SWAT customers in the largest software companies. You will hire, mentor, and coach architects, guide deep architectural discussions, and partner with product teams to invent new cloud solutions that drive business outcomes.

You will build relationships with customer executives, share best practices, and scale learnings through publications and speaking engagements, helping customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions on cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, etc.

Responsibilities

• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects including Principal Solutions Architects.
• Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to work with SWAT customers to transfer deep technical knowledge.
• 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

Strategic thinking

Cloud architecture knowledge

People management

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an experienced Solutions Architect Leader to grow and lead a team supporting SWAT customers in the largest software companies. You will hire, mentor, and coach architects, guide deep architectural discussions, and partner with product teams to invent new cloud solutions that drive business outcomes.

You will build relationships with customer executives, share best practices, and scale learnings through publications and speaking engagements, helping customers