Manager, Solutions Architecture, Media & Entertainment, AGS UKI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technical leader to coach, grow, and partner with customer-facing Solutions Architects, supporting a wide range of Enterprise and Digitally Native, Media & Entertainment customers in the UK. You will help develop the industry’s best Solutions Architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices, solution positioning, presentation and speaking skills, as well as how to create and present value-driven architectures of widely varying size and complexity.

In collaboration with sales, you will help shape and deliver on the industry aligned strategy to help create innovative and customer obsessed business outcomes. In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer and solutions-focused skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and keeping up to date with new technology in order to help your team guide our customer’s use of technology to drive transformational change. You will also deliver thought leadership, looking beyond technology and considering the value it creates for our customers at scale. You will be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments that support your team within AWS as well as representing your team to executive management.

The ideal candidate has experience building and leading distributed teams of solutions architects at large, fast growing enterprises. Customer-facing experience is required, ideally from having worked as a leader / technologist or similar role for several years. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience working in complex virtualized environments.

• In partnership with the account management team, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to drive adoption of AWS
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop Solutions Architects
• Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS
• Educate customers and their senior leaders on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals
• Software/technology customer facing experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built in the cloud
• Demonstrable effective communication skills in both written and verbal formats across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences at C-level
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises.
• Technical degree or equivalent experience
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.