Director, Technology, LATAM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated customer facing leaders to coach grow and partner with technically skilled customer-facing Solutions Architects. You will help develop the industrys best cloud-based solutions architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices solution selling presentation and speaking skills as well as how to create and present architectures of widely varying size and collaboration with sales you will drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. If you think you have what it takes to lead the best in the industry AWS is hiring leader for our Solutions Architects.

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 solutions-focused skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. Furthermore thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers and helping to change how technology is viewed are important aspects of the role. You will help team members ramp-up on AWS as well as develop speaking writing presentation and executive interaction skills. You will also need to be adept at interacting communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our services teams marketing and professional services as well as representing your team to executive management. This is a leader of leaders role.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with. At AWS we have a credo of Work hard. Have fun. Make this role you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy developing technical talent to achieve great things. You will have a passion for educating training and enabling cloud computing experts for a diverse and challenging set of Enterprise customers.

Have a strong understanding of solutions innovation. The ideal candidate will have past experience working with customers or similar role and leading large architecture teams.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the business development and sales management teams ensure success in building and migrating applications software and services onto the AWS platform
Hire on-board train and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources
Educate enterprise customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer skills to customers who are considering or using AWS
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers data sheets and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be Cloud advocates
Act as a conduit and liaison between customers service engineering teams and support


15 years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications
10 years management of technical customer facing resources
Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Modern cloud platform skills
Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired


Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Familiarity with common enterprise services
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers.
Strong written communication skills
High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

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