Manager Solutions Architecture Media Entertainment AGS UKI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technical leader to coach grow and partner with customerfacing Solutions Architects supporting a wide range of Enterprise and Digitally Native Media & Entertainment customers in the UK.

You will help develop the industrys best Solutions Architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices solution positioning presentation and speaking skills as well as how to create and present valuedriven architectures of widely varying size and complexity.

In collaboration with sales you will help shape and deliver on the industry aligned strategy to help create innovative and customer obsessed business outcomes.

In this role you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer and solutionsfocused skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and keeping up to date with new technology in order to help your team guide our customers use of technology to drive transformational change. You will also deliver thought leadership looking beyond technology and considering the value it creates for our customers at scale.

You will be adept at interacting communicating and partnering with other departments that support your team within AWS as well as representing your team to executive management.

The ideal candidate has experience building and leading distributed teams of solutions architects at large fast growing enterprises. Customerfacing experience is required ideally from having worked as a leader / technologist or similar role for several years. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required provided you have experience working in complex virtualized environments.


Key job responsibilities
In partnership with the account management team formulate and execute a customerfocused strategy to drive adoption of AWS
Hire onboard train and develop Solutions Architects
Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct onetofew and onetomany training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS
Educate customers and their senior leaders on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers data sheets and other highvalue customer facing guidance and best practices
Act as a conduit and liaison between customers service engineering teams and support


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Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals
Software/technology customer facing experience
Experience architecting/operating solutions built in the cloud
Demonstrable effective communication skills in both written and verbal formats across internal and external organizations with both technical and nontechnical audiences at Clevel
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising endtoend technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with largescale customers or enterprises.
Technical degree or equivalent experience
AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.

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