AWS Solutions Architect Manager , UK Public Sector, Transport & Central Government

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced technical manager to lead a solutions architecture team that helps UK Public Sector Transport and Central Government customers succeed using AWS technologies.

In this role, you will hire and develop some of the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects, coach them on cloud adoption best 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, prioritizing your initiatives and aligning goals to long term value. You and your team will shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS services within Transport and Central Government. You will be interacting directly with customers to better understand their needs and align the right resources and tools to increase 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 so that you can shape the customer and solutions-focused initiatives of your team. You will get to practice your creativity in linking technology to tangible solutions and educating customers about the art of the possible. Central to this will be supporting Solutions Architects to innovative reference architectures for a variety of use cases.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire, on-board, train, and continuously develop Solutions Architects and Solution Architecture Managers; you will support development of great people
• Coach Solutions Architects to conduct technical sessions so they can transfer their technical skills to a diverse set of customers considering or using AWS
• In partnership with account teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to enable and accelerate adoption of AWS
• Thought leadership that inspires customers through public speaking, workshops and written content.
• Develop and own senior level technical customer relationships
• Own the technical strategy that will increase customer value and adoption of well-architected AWS solutions across UK Transport and Central Government customers.
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams, partners, professional services and support

Basic Qualifications

• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Eligible and willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks to SC level

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• AWS Professional level certification
• Cloud Technology Certification

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Company

Company - AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Job ID: A

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