Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture

DESCRIPTION

Job summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated leader to own the vision and development of solutions to support our Telecommunication (Telco ) ISV Partners' adoption of AWS.

In this role, you will lead a team of Solutions architects responsible for defining, executing and delivering an overall platform solution with our largest and most strategic Telco partners. These solutions will provide customers with a mechanism for the end-to-end implementation and operation of secure, resilient, scalable, and flexible environments in which to deploy their Telco workloads.

We are open to consideration for this candidate to be located near any Amazon/AWS U.S. Corporate office.

Work/Life Balance

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Inclusive and Diverse Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire and coach a team of experienced technologists in their support of strategic Telco AWS partners
• Partner and strategize with business counterpart(s) on how to best serve Telco AWS Partners
• Act as a Telco thought leader, articulate a technical strategy, drive the development of innovative Telco solution.
• Directly engage with, and assist Telco partners in building their solutions on AWS
• Optionally, build and deliver broad industry-aligned thought leadership

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 15 years experience implementing industry solutions, including Telco
• 7 years experience managing technical team(s)
• 7 years experience as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions
• 5 years of direct customer or partner facing teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Robust understanding of AWS and/or technology as a service (Iaas,SaaS,PaaS) applied to Telco would be preferred but not required.
• Superb verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to manage distributed teams and work effectively across internal and external organizations and remote teams.
• A talent for being able to influence and build mindshare convincingly with any audience.
• Confident and experienced in public speaking to large audiences.
• Ability to handle complex relationships and work in a team environment.
• Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.