What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Mgr, Storage Solution Architecture, WW Storage Specialists position at Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Description
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.
Key job responsibilities
Roles And Responsibilities
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.
About The Team
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.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MA, Boston - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 191,000.00 - 258,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job ID: A10387524
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.
Key job responsibilities
Roles And 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
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.
About The Team
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.
Basic Qualifications
- 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.
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MA, Boston - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 191,000.00 - 258,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job ID: A10387524