.2+ years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc. experience- 8+ years of technology solutions development and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing experience- Bachelor's degree- Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing rolesAmazon 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