Sr. Solutions Architect,Guidance Lead,AWS Cloud Optimization in Manchester

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

The AWS Cloud Optimization Success team is seeking a Senior Guidance Content Solutions Architect (SA) who will define and maintain guidance for business and technical architectural guidance in accordance with the AWS Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks. We want to help our customers understand how the best practices from the AWS Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks apply to their business, environment, workload, and operational excellence, enabling them to adopt cloud and operate secure, reliable, performant, cost efficient, and sustainable workloads while delivering business value.

This senior autonomous role will focus on customer-facing guidance through remote and on-site engagements, and participation in the global architecture guidance leadership. Your role will be a thought leader and a community leader within AWS with a focus on the development and improvement of prescriptive guidance that will help AWS customers identify their business and technical architectural guidance on AWS. You will then be available as a consultant during the development and operational phases. You will work with our product teams to define requirements and features desired by our customers. You will be a member of the global architecture subject matter experts, ensuring success for customers that develop and operate workloads in the AWS Cloud. You will also be speaking at AWS events and developing whitepapers, creating and delivering labs, and creating other content, including reference implementations.

Key job responsibilities

• This is an opportunity to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption and growth.
• As a trusted advisor, solve some of the most complex and large-scale challenges faced by AWS customers, ranging from rapidly growing cloud-native start-ups to global enterprises migrating to AWS.
• As a thought leader, provide the focus to a community of subject matter experts to create content that will better deliver prescriptive guidance to AWS Customers. If curation of guidance from communities is not possible, author the content firsthand.
• Constantly gather feedback from AWS customers to gain a deep understanding of their needs and technical challenges, and to ensure they achieve the greatest value from AWS as they scale.
• Collaborate, research, develop, validate, and publish customer-facing technical content as reference architectures, best practices, blogs, and other artifacts.
• Collaborate with and support broader AWS teams, Professional Services, and AWS Partners in order to deliver maximum value to customers.
• Influence customers and internal stakeholders to adhere to AWS guidance.
• Present advanced level guidance content to customers. Take part in and lead deep-dive education and technology design exercises to help customers throughout their digital transformation lifecycle from adopting cloud to creating world-class Well-Architected solutions.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on product definition and bringing new features and capabilities to the platform.
• Lead large organizational initiatives, serving as a key influencer and contributing to strategic planning.
• Program-manage through creating and validating a strategic roadmap, with multiple completion milestones and reviews.
• Help with uplifting and enablement for implementations and capabilities of customers, while mentoring other AWS field team members.
• Contribute to the growth of the organization by helping to hire, coach, and mentor other members of the team.
• This position can have periods of up to 20-40% travel.

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

About the team

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience in project/program management
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Solutions Architect/Consultant (strategizing, business planning, reviewing, deploying, managing and architecting workloads in a production environment).
• 3+ years of experience in technical thought leadership within infrastructure or cloud-computing. Experience in publishing technical blogs and papers on the cloud business and technical architectural best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification
• Familiarity with AI/ML/GenAI technologies and their application on content management lifecycle.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.