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Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated senior leader to coach, grow, and partner with technically skilled, customer-facing Solutions Architects in Germany. You will help develop the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices, solution focus, presentation and speaking skills, as well as how to create and present architectures of widely varying size and complexity. This team will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services (Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lambda, just to name a few) within AWS Enterprise customers in Germany.

This is a senior leadership position for someone who can build strong teams quickly, establish relationships at CXO level and set strategy at a senior level within AWS, measure and deliver results, and also get hands-on to help build complex, AWS-optimized architectures.

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 technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. 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 also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS, especially with account management, service teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

The ideal candidate has experience building and leading distributed teams of solutions architects at large, fast growing enterprises. Customer-facing experience is required, ideally from having worked as a senior leader / Chief Technologist or similar role for several years.

Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience working in complex virtualized environments.

Key job responsibilities

As a key member of the regional leadership team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.

In partnership with the account management team, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to drive adoption of AWS.

Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

Hire, on-board, train, and develop a strong team of 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.

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.

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

About the team

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

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.

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

Berlin, BE, DEU | Dusseldorf, NW, DEU | Frankfurt, HE, DEU | Hamburg, HH, DEU | Munich, BY, DEU

Basic Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals.

• Strong software/technology customer facing experience.

• High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences at C-level.

• Technical degree.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

• Working knowledge of software development life cycle, tools, and methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to speak in public

• Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

• Exhibits excellent business judgment

• Hires great people, develops great people

• Has relentlessly high standards

• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution

• Expects and requires innovation of their team

• Thinks big and has convictions

• Is action and results oriented

• Is highly analytical and structured

• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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