Description

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

AWS is looking for an experienced technical leader for a Solutions Architecture team based in Canada. As a Manager of the team, within Amazon Web services (AWS), you will lead a team delivering customer success with our top SI, GSI, and ISV partners. This is a management position for someone who can develop and manage a team of top technical talent, establish relationships and set strategy at a senior level with Partner leaders and AWS internal teams, measure and deliver results, and also get involved in enabling and driving thought leadership.

We are looking for someone who possesses the deep technical skills as well as customer facing skills that will enable you to represent AWS supporting customers and partners. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, enterprise workloads, and new technology platforms and architectures. Understanding of AWS Technologies is desired but not required. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at both strategic partners and AWS service teams.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Hire, on-board, train, and develop technically specialist Solutions Architects; you should be an exceptional builder of great people.

• In partnership with business alliance teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to drive adoption of AWS services with partners.

• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.

• Guide and prioritize the development of automations and mechanisms, wherever possible.

• Own the technical strategy that will increase customer experience and adoption of Linux partner technologies on AWS.

• Lead and set the technical strategy with AWS product teams.

• Act as a conduit and liaison between partners, customers, service engineering teams and support teams.

This position can be based in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Up to 30% travel is required.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords engineers options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Amazon offices. Our hybrid models allow you the freedom to work from home whenever in-office collaboration isn’t necessary.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise IT application work that includes at least 2 years of hands-on software development or DevOps engineering experience.

• 2+ years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc. experience.

• 8+ years of technology solutions development and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing experience.

• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.