Head of Data Solutions Architecture

Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals
- 10+ years of technical design/implementation/consulting experience working with technologies, particularly in Data
- 5+ years of leadership experience in a technical, customer-facing role in the technology industry
- High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track record of building rapport with senior customer executives (e.g. CEO, CIO, CTO)
- Ability to speak in public and in front of an audience is required
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a senior manager to coach, grow, and partner with technically skilled, customer-facing Solutions Architects for our customers. If you have experience leading technical teams, and are interested in helping customers embrace technologies, come and talk to us.

Specialist Solutions Architects work with partners and customers to accelerate their transformation. They engage in a wide range of activities around their domain of expertise, providing technical advice to customers, helping the internal and external communities, presenting publicly on their domain, and providing a preferred path between service teams and customers.

This role will specifically focus on Services helping our customers and partners build innovative Solutions that focus on leveraging the value of data. As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA) Manager, you will lead a team of Solutions Architects who help customers select the technologies that will support their business requirements. You will guide team members in their ramp-up on as well as develop speaking, writing, presentation, and executive interaction skills. You will be a practitioner as well as a manager. You will interact, communicate and partner with other departments within such as our services teams, marketing, business development, and professional services, as well as representing your team to senior management.

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Roles and responsibilities
- Coach: hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources, ensure they have the required skills needed to perform their function, have clearly defined goals, appropriate feedback and tracking, and work with them on their career development
- Sponsor: support your team and provide them with support internally and with customers by acting as a facilitator, an executive sponsor, and an escalation point
- Customers' trusted advisor: collaborate with account, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use services and solutions
- Public engagement: provide thought leadership on solutions that benefit customers through the use of Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the Blogs, Whitepapers and Reference architectures, or public presentations at Summits, re: Invent, User Groups or Industry events
- Community player: capture and share best-practices, participate, and contribute as a member of the worldwide technical community of Solution Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and Trainers
- Service team point of : act as a conduit between the Service teams and the customers, providing detailed guidance for the broader field organization and the customers, and acting as an advocate for the customers towards the central teams
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Previous professional experience architecting/operating solutions in cloud technologies
- MBA/Technical Master's Degree
- Experience leading other leaders

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