Sr Mgr, Storage Solution Architecture, WW Storage Specialists

Amazon • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced Sr Storage Solutions
Architect Manager to lead a team of storage solution architects to work with
customers, introduce new technologies, and adopt new solutions. The successful
candidate must have great people management, mentoring, and hiring skills. In
addition, you will be responsible for running technical go-to-market
initiatives, surfacing customers insights to the product teams, and develop
metrics and mechanisms to track the success of the team.

In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own
right, as well as being effective in shaping the customer and solutions focused
skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and introducing new technologies in
order 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.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Enjoy developing technical talent to achieve great things. You will have a
passion for educating, training, and enabling cloud 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.

The role will require travel to key AWS events.

We have leadership principles that help guide us in our every-day decision
making process. We believe they are a clearer articulation of those things that
have always been a part of what makes Amazon great. We are continuously looking
for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy and
happy lives. A day in the life of a Sr Manager for SA include coaching and
mentoring the team, engaging with the service teams on new capabilities, and
working cross-functionally between the field and WW teams working with
customers.

The WW Storage team is one of the first specialists teams at AWS, we have a wide
diversity of customers using our services from large to small. Our team is
collaborative, customer focused, and trusts members to do the right thing for
customers. We value innovation by finding new ways to delight and please our
customers, and strive to accomplish great things.

About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred
qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates
to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,
or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted
cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating —
that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies
trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led
affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our
differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our
Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)
conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s
Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and
other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded
professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of
our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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 business development team and other service stakeholders, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed adoption and revenue objectives
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects
• Coach 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 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, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices

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: Mid Level