Amazon Verantwortliche Elektrofachkraft VEFK - 

Germany, Hesse, Frankfurt 

242932848

Key job responsibilities
Leadership & People Management* Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Startup Solutions Architects across Canada.
* Set technical priorities, coach on career development, and create a culture of builder-first, hands-on engagement with startups.
* Ensure consistent execution of technical depth and startup empathy across the team.
* Partner closely with Canadian startup account managers, BD teams, and ecosystem programs (VCs, accelerators, incubators).Regional Technical Strategy* Develop and execute the technical engagement strategy for Canada’s startup ecosystem.
* Tailor global mechanisms to Canadian needs, with emphasis on GenAI, data strategy, and regulated industries.
* Represent AWS in Canada’s startup and research communities, building relationships with universities, accelerators, and industry groups.
* Provide input to global SA leadership on trends emerging from Canada (AI/ML, fintech, climate tech).Hands-On Technical Leadership* While primarily a manager, stay hands-on enough to maintain credibility with founders and CTOs.
* Guide startups on cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes/EKS, DevOps/SRE practices, and serverless-first design.
* Provide expertise on GenAI workloads: foundation model usage, training/fine-tuning, inference scaling, and cost optimization.
* Advise on data strategy: proprietary data as a moat, data labeling, pipelines, compliance (especially PIPEDA in Canada), and ML readiness.Scaling & Mechanism Building* Drive creation of reference architectures, reusable assets, and enablement programs that scale across the Canada SA org.
* Build technical enablement programs for Canadian founders, including workshops on cloud-native, AI/ML, and data foundations.
* Partner with Canadian accelerators (Creative Destruction Lab, NextAI, Communitech, etc.) to deliver impactful technical programming

- 10+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

- Strong familiarity with Canada’s startup ecosystem, including government programs (IRAP, SR&ED), AI research hubs, and local funding dynamics.