Solution Architecture Manager

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DESCRIPTION: 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.

Imagine being a part of a team where your ideas can help reshape the future of the Telco industry and improve the lives of many.

AWS Solutions Architects are trusted advisors to our customers, helping them solve some of their largest business challenges by designing and advising on some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient solutions in the world.

Working closely with internal teams at AWS, you'll identify how our customers push the boundaries and how we can improve our services to obsess over our customers.
In this role you will be helping our customers accelerate the global energy transition.

Being a thought leader who creates and presents content you'll help the largest Telco companies scale and grow in non-linear ways, using AWS as their building blocks.
To do this, you'll partner with internal teams to shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and enable the broad use of AWS within the organisation.

In this role, you will push technology boundaries and will have the opportunity to partner with customers early in their cloud journey and help them scale as well as customers further in their cloud journey where you can have visible and measurable impact in their growth ambitions.
Your dynamism, creativity and passion for excellence will make a positive impact with your customer.

Our customers' needs are moving fast, so you will too.
Be part of the team helping our largest customers find innovative and transformative ways to reinvent their business

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Key job responsibilities
•Work directly with Telco customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs, using your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
•Drive technical solution discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical problems and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
•Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
•Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
•Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals.

A day in the life
Managers in the Solutions Architect team work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities.
They develop both the strategy and the team itself.

Using an informed view of the market with an understanding of emerging technology trends they speed-up innovation across their customer segment.

Externally, they are recognized thought leaders and influence the strategy of our customers.
Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.
On a daily basis you will work alongside people who are leading the way in designing cloud bases architecture.

We are the trusted advisor to our customers, so challenge our customers to think differently, learn more build elegant, transformative solutions

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.

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.
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 in the cloud.

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 and 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.

What if I don't meet all the requirements?

That's okay
We hire people who have a passion for learning and are curious.
You will be supported in your career development here at AWS.
You will have plenty of opportunities to build your technical, leadership, business and consulting skills.
Your onboarding will set you up for success, including a combination of formal and informal training.
You'll also have a chance to gain AWS certifications and access mentorship programs.
You will learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - 10+ years of enterprise IT application work that includes 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.
experience
- 8+ years of technology solutions development and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing experience
- Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles
- Deep knowledge of the Telco industry, their challenges and opportunities.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.
We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.