Technical Account Manager

As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Amazon Web Services, you will be a valued member of the Enterprise Support team leading the success of enterprise support customers in building applications and services on the AWS platform. You work backwards from your customer to define a support strategy, deliver expert advice on AWS services in support of questions, project and launch planning and ongoing operational issues. TAMs are engaged at the account level, providing recommendations and proactive advice through all phases of the cloud adoption life cycle.

Key job responsibilities

Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

• Act as a single point of contact to Enterprise Accounts

• Understand your customers outcomes and business goals

• Make AWS service improvement recommendations that fit with your customer strategy and architecture

• Evaluate, analyze and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customers

• Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed prelaunch planning

• Champion and advocate for customer requirements within AWS (e.g. feature request)

• Participate in customer requested meetings (onsite or via phone)

• Leverage key customer resolution tools across all service groups to facilitate rapid resolution of customer concerns

• Share knowledge and innovate with some of the leading technologists around the world

• Work directly with Amazon Web Service engineers to ensure that customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible

• Plan and execute successful business-critical events including product launches, migrations, and modernizations for your customers on AWS.

About the team
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Basic qualifications

• Experience in at least two of the following technical domains: Compute, Storage, Networking, CDN, Databases, DevOps, Big Data and Analytics, Security, Applications Development.

• Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate and present to small and large audiences.

• 5 years of experience in similar roles such as a Senior Technical Consultant, Solutions Architect, IT Manager/Engineer or other similar technical role

Preferred qualifications

• Computer Science or Math background.

• Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies

• Experience working with AWS technologies

• Solid understanding of technology budget management