Sr Manager, Analytics Specialist Solutions Architects

Amazon • New York, NY

5d

About The Position

Would you like to lead a team driving Analytics solutions at our most important
customers? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help
customers and partners use Analytics services to build new solutions, faster,
and at lower cost?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to be the pioneer and widely recognized
leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide IT infrastructure
in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses
around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies
to Global 500 companies in industries such as financial services,
pharmaceuticals, and high technology.

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every day. We have 16 leadership principles that help guide us in our every-day
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must consciously hold on to in fulfilling our mission to be Earth’s Most
Customer Centric Company. We are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a
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We're looking for a Sr. Manager to lead a team of specialist solutions
architects to design, evangelize, and architect state-of-the-art Analytics
solutions for our customers. The successful candidate must have Analytics
Solution tech depth and great people management/mentoring skills. You will help
develop the industry's best Analytics Solutions Architects by enabling and
coaching them on how to create and present architectures of widely varying size
and complexity as well as on best practices for specialized solution selling and
presentation. Working closely with our services teams, you will help enable new
capabilities for our customers to develop and deploy workloads on AWS.

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 technologies to help
colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new solutions. 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 need to be adept at
interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS, including
services teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, business
development, and professional services. You will appropriately recognize, reward
and represent your team to executive management. You should be passionate about
helping companies/partners understand best practices for operating on AWS.

Other qualities we are looking for:
Enjoy developing technical talent to achieve great things. You will have a
passion for educating, training, and enabling Analytics solutions experts for a
diverse and challenging set of customers.
Have a strong understanding of emerging technology solutions. The ideal
candidate will have past experience working as a Solutions Architect or similar
role and managing a team of Solutions Architects. You will enjoy keeping your
existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong
contributions to deep architecture discussions.
Understand the intersection of business and technology executives in selling and
positioning analytics in the enterprise.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• In partnership with the specialized sales teams, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives.
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Specialist Solutions Architects.
• Coach Specialist Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS.
• Step into a Specialist Solutions Architect role when required to support our customer base.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, blog posts, and other high-value customer-facing collateral.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager