Technical Account Manager (TAM) is accountable for post-sales technical relationship management with enterprise clients across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, private / hybrid). The TAM ensures successful onboarding, optimization, ongoing support, and business growth by acting as the technical advisor and trusted advocate for clients. This role collaborates cross-functionally with engineering, operations, product, and customer success teams, and proactively drives adoption, maximizes customer value, and mitigates risk across complex and dynamic cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities :
- Own the technical relationship for designated accounts, delivering tailored advisory, escalation management, and guidance for multi-cloud setups.
- Proactively identify challenges, recommend architectural, performance, security, and cost improvements; drive resolution with internal / external stakeholders.
- Conduct periodic account reviews (success metrics, usage, optimization, risks, compliance).
- Develop and deliver enablement, onboarding, and best-practices workshops; facilitate customer adoption of new services / features.
- Serve as point of contact for major incidents, technical escalations, outage communications, and remediation strategies.
- Ensure documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base are up to date and accessible for assigned customers.
- Advocate for customer needs and product improvements to CSP engineering / product teams.
- Contribute to upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities by identifying technical requirements aligned with business growth.
Required Skillsets
Deep technical expertise in multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) including networking, security, compute, storage, cloud-native & hybrid architectures.Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills with hands-on experience in cloud monitoring, automation, and DevOps tooling.Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills (client-facing, executive presence).Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for business decision makers.Knowledge of cloud cost management, compliance, SLAs, and service governance frameworks.Experience with deployment automation (Terraform, Ansible, cloud SDK / CLI), CI / CD pipelines, and cloud operations best practices.Familiarity with ITIL, agile / scrum delivery, and service management processes.Problem-solving orientation with strong data analysis and reporting skills.Certifications : AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, Google Cloud Professional, ITIL v4 (preferred).Role’s Success Measures
Customer Satisfaction & Retention : High CSAT / NPS scores, positive client feedback, strong retention and renewal rates.Technical Issue Resolution : Fast mean time to resolution (MTTR) on technical issues, reduced incident recurrence.Account Growth : Successful identification and adoption of new cloud services / features, additional revenue from expansions / upsells.Service Health & Optimization : Improved cost, performance, and security posture for managed workloads; measurable reduction in outages and operational risks.Stakeholder Engagement : Effective collaboration with internal teams and clear communication with customers regarding issues, updates, and best practices.Proactive Value Delivery : Track record of preventing problems, optimizing architectures, and advocating for customer’s business outcomes (not just break / fix support).