Senior Solutions Architect Leader, SWAT Cloud Strategy

Amazon Web Services (AWS); East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 231,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in East Palo Alto, CA is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect Leader to grow and lead a team of Solutions Architects serving our SWAT customers. You will partner with sellers, coach engineers, and drive architectures that deliver real business outcomes.

This role requires building relationships with technical executives, guiding migrations and modernization on AWS, and propagating best practices through publications and trainings.

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 built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, 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

Leadership

Enterprise customer management

Cloud architecture

Public speaking

Mentoring

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in East Palo Alto, CA is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect Leader to grow and lead a team of Solutions Architects serving our SWAT customers. You will partner with sellers, coach engineers, and drive architectures that deliver real business outcomes.

This role requires building relationships with technical executives, guiding migrations and modernization on AWS, and propagating best practices through publications and trainings.