Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer-facing roles.
Experience driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.
High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Exceptional influencing and negotiation skills.
Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience.
Passion for technology and for learning.
Fluent written and verbal communication in English and Spanish.
Job Summary This role is within the Iberia organization and you would be working with strategic customers. The role can be based either in our Madrid or Barcelona offices in Spain or in our Lisbon office in Portugal.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a tenured technical manager to lead a solutions architecture organization that helps customers succeed using AWS technologies. In this role, you will hire and develop some of the industry's best cloud-based solutions architects, coach them on cloud adoption best practices, and 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.
Key Job Responsibilities Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects and Solution Architecture Managers; you should be an exceptional builder of great people.
Coach Solutions Architects to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many technical sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS.
In partnership with account management teams, formulate and execute a customer-focused strategy to drive adoption of AWS.
Guide and prioritize the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer-facing guidance and best practices.
Own the technical strategy that will increase customer value and adoption of well-architected AWS solutions across Iberia customers.
Drive Solutions Architecture initiatives across multiple geographies.
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 strategic, digital customers in the Iberia Region. 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 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.
Desired Qualifications The following qualifications are desired but not required:
History of successful career as a CTO with strategic digital customers.
Prior working experience as a Chief Technology senior role.
Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps.
Previous professional experience architecting / operating solutions built on AWS.
Experience designing, building, refactoring, or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud.
Experience with public speaking.
AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or other industry certification.
Continued or advanced learning (Master, MBA, PhD or equivalent).
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