Senior Solutions Architecture Manager, India Startups

Do you have a passion for Startups Do you have a passion for helping early startup companies grow and thrive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technical manager to coach grow and partner with skilled Startups Solutions Architects focusing on a wide range of customers. Working in collaboration with our sales teams you will drive growth across a broad set of customers in this segment. If you think you have what it takes to lead the best in the industry AWS is hiring Managers for our Solutions Architects!

As a Sr. Solutions Architecture Manager for India Startups you will lead a team of skilled Solutions Architects who partner with early-stage to growth-stage startups across India. You will be hands-on working directly with customers on significantly complex technical challenges while coaching your team to elevate their impact. You should bring proven strategic thinking deep technical expertise and demonstrated ability to influence across organizations.

You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own rightable to architect solutions to significantly complex problems decompose technical complexity into straightforward solutions and serve as a trusted advisor to startup founders and CTOs. Simultaneously you must be effective in developing the customer-facing and technical skills of your experienced team members.

In addition to technical depth you should have a solid understanding of the startup journeythe unique challenges startups face and how technology can empower their businesses. You will work directly with a variety of startups helping them make the best technical decisions as they scale while building your teams capability to do the same.

Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Technical Leadership
- Lead critical customer engagements including cloud adoption and migration programs and complex technical challenges with high-stakes outcomes
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to startup founders and senior business and technical leaders operating at a strategic level and creating opportunities for your team to act as trusted advisors
- Apply deep technical understanding across multiple domains to invent evolve and simplify solutions that drive customer success

Team Leadership & Development
- Coach and develop experienced Solutions Architects to elevate their technical capabilities and strategic advisory abilities
- Build a high-performing team through effective hiring onboarding and continuous skill development
- Foster a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
- Maintain a high bar for operational excellence; define and maintain appropriate cadences for inspecting the business in your area

Strategic Impact & Collaboration
- Champion your areas customer needs with senior leaders within AWS
- Bridge customer needs with AWS product teams ensuring customer feedback drives product improvements
- Partner with senior leaders within AWS sales investor management specialist and engineering teams to deliver comprehensive solutions and clear obstacles to customer success

About the team
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- 10 years of managing a technical team of solution architects sales engineers or similar technical roles experience
- 8 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure AWS GCP OCI etc.
- Experience in people management and CXO level engagement

- Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- AWS Professional level certification

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