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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 for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). You will help develop the industrys 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 Amazons 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.
The role is based in Warsaw, Prague, Athens or in one of the AWS offices for Central Eastern Europe (CEE).
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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - thats 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, its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Significant experience in leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals and 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 and demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
Working knowledge of software development life cycle, tools, and methodologies.
Local languages skills for one or multiple countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Exhibits excellent business judgment, has relentlessly high standards and is highly analytical and structured