Sr Manager, Specialist Solutions Architecture, UKI Area Specialist Team (AST)

Are you passionate about leading deep technical expertise at the intersection of customer impact and organisational scale Do you want to define how AWS accelerates customer adoption across domains like data migrations and security through hands-on customer engagement scalable mechanisms and a high-performing team of specialist solutions architects This is a highly visible customer-facing leadership role that will shape how AWS builds specialist capability and earns trust with customers across key UKI industries including financial services retail media and the public sector.

As a Senior Manager Specialist Solutions Architecture you will lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects aligned to multiple technical domains. You will act as a strategic business partner to the Head of Specialists UKI co-owning the specialist strategy shaping investment priorities and translating field signals into action. This is not a back-office leadership role: you will maintain your own technical depth and direct customer engagement modelling the standard you expect from your team.

Your team earns trust with customers by going deep understanding their industries their constraints and their ambitions and translating that understanding into architectures that accelerate outcomes. You will build the culture hiring bar and mechanisms that ensure every customer interaction reinforces AWSs position as a long-term trusted technical partner.

You will define and optimise scalable acceleration mechanisms that allow the team to operate as a force multiplier across the broader field organisation and partner network. You will work in close interlock with GTM leadership Enablement/TFC service teams and regional SA leadership ensuring specialist investment is tightly coupled to customer need and business priority.

Key job responsibilities
Lead hire develop and retain a high-performing team of Specialist Solutions Architects across multiple technical domains maaintaining personal technical depth and direct customer engagement

Serve as the strategic business partner to the Head of Specialists UKI co-owning strategy shaping investment priorities and translating customer and field signals into action

Lead a customer-facing team that earns trust with senior stakeholders across key UKI industries and customers by going deep on their challenges and delivering architectures that accelerate outcomes

Define and execute the teams operating model (Advancing Organisational Capabilities Customer Advisory Thought Leadership) and the scalable acceleration mechanisms that allow the team to operate as a force multiplier across the field and partner network

Drive high-impact technical content structured voice-of-customer feedback and success metrics that demonstrate business impact ensuring the teams expertise and technical & domai depth

- Experience in management of technical enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure AWS GCP OCI etc.
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

- Experience in modern data platform architecture highly desirable

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