Manager, Solutions Architecture ISV, Cloud Sales Center Solution Architecture

$152,100 - $262,800/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Manager, Solutions Architecture for ISV at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is responsible for leading and developing a team of customer-facing Solution Architects. This role focuses on enabling the team to deliver cloud-based solutions to Independent Software Vendor (ISV) customers, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively engage with clients. The manager will also play a key role in shaping technology roadmaps and driving IT transformations towards cloud computing, while fostering a culture of learning and innovation within the team.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers and key AWS business partners such as professional services, partners, support, and the services teams.
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources.
• Educate ISV customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Build and coach the team on the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer deep technical skills to customers considering or using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be 'Cloud advocates'.
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise IT application work including at least 2 years of hands-on software development or DevOps engineering experience.
• 2+ years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
• 8+ years of technology solutions development and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer-facing roles.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong understanding of large scale computing solutions, business-IT transformations, or relevant consulting experience.
• Past experience working as a Solutions Architect or similar role.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits package.
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
• Flexible work-life balance initiatives.