Sr Manager, Solutions Architect, Training and Certification

Description

Manage a high performing team of technical professionals and contribute to the direction of the Training and Certification organization. Lead the transformation of our certification exams as we accelerate our delivery time frames and expand into new testing modalities to delight our customers.

• Lead technical accuracy and exam integrity — serve as a senior AWS subject matter expert advising question writers and exam developers across the certification portfolio, ensuring content reflects current AWS services, architectures, and best practices.
• Drive technical strategy — as a member of the Certification leadership team, contribute to the program's technical roadmap, influence how we evolve our exam development practices, and represent the engineering perspective in leadership discussions.
• Oversee architecture and build next‑generation tooling — modernize how we create, deliver, and maintain certification exams; identify automation opportunities and eliminate manual bottlenecks.
• Lead AI and GenAI adoption — apply AWS GenAI services (including Amazon Bedrock and related AI/ML services) to automate and augment key workflows: exam integrity monitoring, fraud detection, predictive analytics, and operational efficiency across the team.
• Manage a high‑performing team — lead a team of Solutions Architects, set a high technical bar, foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, and develop your team's skills in both AWS expertise and AI‑augmented ways of working.
• Partner across the organization — collaborate with exam development, psychometrics, delivery, and product teams to align technical solutions with business needs and certification program goals.

The AWS Certification team validates a learner’s AWS knowledge and skills. There are currently Foundational, Associate, Professional, and Specialty exams that result in Certifications used by candidates to measure their knowledge and skills, and employers to find candidates with the knowledge and skills to perform tasks around AWS and AI.

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center.

You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

Diverse Experiences – AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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