Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a solutions architects manager with strong software engineering skills and a passion for delivering solutions that accelerate our customers' ability to innovate on our platform. You will be part of a tight knit team of innovative practitioners who are obsessed with understanding the needs of our customers and have the skills to partner with them in experimenting with new ideas that can open up new markets or radically change how they deliver existing products/services. Our goal is to double our customers’ inventiveness by doubling the number of experiments they can run (Jeff Bezos). 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 will have ownership in hiring the developing a team that is inclusive, innovative and operates with high standards. You must enjoy learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. You will create an environment where high judgement failure is embraced so your team can move fast without compromising on research time that is required to experiment with new ideas. You will need to have a product focused approach by looking beyond the technology and considering the value the AWS cloud creates for our customers in developing new products and services. You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:
- Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
- Enjoy developing technical talent to achieve great things. You will have a passion for educating, training, and enabling builders to meet the unique needs of our customers in key industries using cloud based solutions.
- Have proven abilities in leading engineering teams who've successfully delivered products/services.


Key job responsibilities

- Understand and anticipate our customers business needs and accelerate their ability to innovate by building working prototypes that evolve into reusable solutions (i.e. industry accelerators)
- Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams’ roadmaps
- Identify and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community and beyond through industry conferences and events
- Guide and motivate the development and/or author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, blogs, etc.
- Position requires travel -- generally 25%


Key job responsibilities
* Hire, mentor and develop solutions architects with a track record of delivering innovative software solutions
* Be a champion of engineering and operational excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and performance excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.
* Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations
* Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate release cycles
* Position requires travel — generally, between 0 - 30%

A day in the life
* Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Strong written communication skills
* Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish and English, in technical and business settings (verbal and written).
* Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with both technical and non-technical audiences at the executive level.

Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (“STEM” majors) or equivalent experience (Computer Science preferred)
- Ability to deliver high quality documents paying attention to detail - Hands-on expertise in emerging technologies like AI/ML, compute at the edge, and modern application architectures in cloud.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to right level the conversation
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly