Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced technical manager to lead a solutions architecture team that helps Brazil Public Sector 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 Brazilian 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 create cutting edge reference architectures for a variety of use cases.

The ideal candidate has experience building, managing and developing talented teams of both senior and early career engineers, technical consultants, solutions architects or equivalent technical professionals. Customer-facing experience is preferred, and practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have sound management skills and a strong technical foundation in secure, scalable and reliable IT architectures.

The pace of change is fast at AWS and the successful candidate will be expected to show flexibility and adapt to changing customer alignments in the future.

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.

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 one-to-few and one-to-many technical sessions so they can transfer their technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS

• In partnership with account management teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to enable and accelerate adoption of AWS

• Guide and prioritize the development of whitepapers, blogs, 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 Brazilian Government customers.

• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams, partners, professional services and support

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise IT application work that includes software development or DevOps engineering

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing

• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud