Manager, Solutions Architecture

Cloud Computing and AI technology are changing the world. AWS is heavily investing in New Zealand, and we are looking for individuals who want to help us shape this exciting time, including our $7.5bn investment in the local Region. If you have a passion for using technology to impact the future of our customers, read on…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced technical manager to lead the solutions architecture organization that helps customers succeed using AWS technologies.

This role is based in New Zealand, and will work with a variety of New Zealand commercial customers across Enterprise and FSI segments.

In this role, you will hire and develop some of the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects, coach them on cloud and AI adoption best practices, empower them to further develop their technical areas of depth as well as their communication, presentation and strategic advisory skills. You will be partnering with other teams within AWS such as account management, service teams, marketing, and professional services, prioritizing your initiatives and aligning goals to maximize long term value.

Senior Managers work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities. They have a leading role in developing both the strategy and the team itself. They combine an informed view of the market and their understanding of emerging technology to speed up innovation. Externally, they are seen as thought leaders and influence the IT strategy of our customers.

Key job responsibilities

- As a key member of the business development and sales management teams, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services onto the AWS platform.

- Hire, on-board, coach, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources.

- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”.

- 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.

A day in the life

You and your organization will shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS services within a variety of customers across New Zealand. You will be interacting directly with executive customers to better understand their needs and align the right resources and tools to maximize their success. You will be measuring and delivering results, while staying in touch with the pace of innovation of the AWS technology and its use cases. You will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well so that you can shape the customer and solutions-focused initiatives of your organization.

You will get to practice your creativity in driving the link of technology to tangible solutions and educating customers about the art of the possible. Central to this will be your leadership in driving Solutions Architects to create cutting edge reference architectures for a variety of use cases.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and 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.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

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.

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

- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred qualifications

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

- Bachelor's degree

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