Position: Solutions Architecture Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa
This role is within the Sub-Saharan Africa organisation and you would be working with Public Sector and Greenfield Enterprise customers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced technical manager to lead a solutions architecture team that helps Public Sector and Greenfield Enterprise customers succeed using AWS this role, you will hire and develop some of the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects, coach them on cloud adoption leading practices, empower them to further develop their technical areas of depth as well as their communication, presentation and strategic advisory skills.
You will be partnering with other teams within AWS such as account management, service teams, marketing, and professional services, prioritising your initiatives and aligning goals to maximise long term value.
You and your team will shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS services. You will be interacting directly with customers to better understand their needs and align the right people and tools to maximise their success. You will be measuring and delivering results, while staying in touch with the pace of innovation of the AWS technology and its use cases.
You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well so that you can shape the customer and solutions-focused initiatives of your team. You will get to practice your creativity in driving the link of technology to tangible solutions and educating customers about the art of the possible. Central to this will be your leadership in driving Solutions Architects to create fir for purpose reference architectures for a variety of use cases.
The ideal candidate has experience building, leading and developing talented teams of senior engineers or solutions architects. Customer-facing experience is preferred, practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have sound leadership skills and a strong technical foundation in secure, scalable and reliable IT architectures.
At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build on behalf of customers.
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Key job responsibilities
Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects and Solution Architecture Managers; you should be an exceptional builder of great people.
Coach Solutions Architects to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many technical sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWSIn partnership with account management teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to drive adoption of AWSGuide and prioritize the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
Own the technical strategy that will increase customer value and adoption of well-architected AWS solutions across customers.
Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
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