Full Job Description
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) sales organization is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect Leader to grow and lead a team of Solutions Architects who support our largest Enterprise customers. In this role you and your team will partner with sellers as part of an account team, to drive business outcomes for your customers. You will lead, motivate, and coach your team in developing relationships with technical executives, guide customers in using architecture best practices, partner with product teams to invent new solutions on behalf of your customers, develop internal processes. You will also coach your team in scaling their learnings through internal and external publications and speaking engagements.
Your customers consist of the largest public and fastest growing software companies who provide solutions for enterprises, processing billions of transactions per day. Come join AWS in inventing the future of cloud computing in partnership with some of the most technologically advanced companies. It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious people to be part of our diverse teams of thinkers and doers.
Key job responsibilities
- Ensure you and you team delivers software solutions on AWS that lead to business outcomes, including migrations to AWS and global expansion of existing customer services.
- Partner and coach your team to partner with supporting specialist and service teams in developing solutions.
- Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects including Principal Solutions Architects.
- 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.
- Coach your team to share their learning internally and externally both written and through speaking engagements.
- 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.
A day in the life
Speed is of essence at AWS. You'll will lead your team prioritizing and quickly acting on customer initiatives, leveraging all applicable programs, resources, and teams. You will stay on top of new AWS services. Finally, you'll set time aside for strategic thinking and writing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
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.
USA, CA, Mountain View - 231,200.00 - 312,800.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Francisco - 231,200.00 - 312,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually