Solutions Architecture Manager, Public Sector Federal & NSD 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.

The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. Partnering with internal teams and leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate daily and define the future of cloud computing. Come join us in making the impossible, possible.

We are looking for a Manager for our Solution Architecture team. Join our Public Sector team to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS cloud services within our strategic accounts and owning the on-going technical relationship with customers in the Australian Government community.

The AWS Solutions Architecture team works with the Australian Government and AWS partners on architecting innovative solutions for all our stakeholders. Our work can be highly sensitive, time critical focusing on strategic and operational outcomes. We are passionate about supporting our Public Sector community and will go the extra mile to ensure we achieve successful outcomes. We are consistently challenged with unique and diverse requirements that require 'out of the box' thinking supported by deep technical knowledge

As the Manager, you will supervise a team of talented solutions architects focused on working to support our most critical Government customers.
The broad responsibilities will include developing highly skilled technical staff, supporting technical strategies for customers and driving customer outcomes with your team of Solutions Architects. An effective leader will develop a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowledge of how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess communication skills that allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

We welcome experienced people leaders who can bring a diverse perspective about how to further build and enhance our high performing team.

Candidates must Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see https://www.agsva.gov.au/applicants/eligibility-and-suitability)

Key job responsibilities
Lead and manage a team of solutions architects focused on Federal Government and NSD customers
Drive innovation by identifying new concepts and technologies to support customer missions/outcomes
Partner with internal AWS teams to bring the best of AWS to each customer
Help shape the strategic technology roadmap for the customer organisations
Work with each Solution Architect to develop their professional and technical skillset
Support the AWS business cycle and execute backoffice functions as required