Cloud Solutions Architect: Education & Research

Amazon Inc.; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the UK Public Sector is hiring a Solutions Architect to support Education and Research customers, helping universities and public bodies adopt cloud technologies.

You will build executive relationships, guide migrations, and collaborate with sales and specialist teams to scope and deliver well-architected solutions.

This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities to work on generative AI and data analytics while shaping cloud strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting.
• Experience with cloud computing and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship with Education and Research customers, advising on architecture, security, cost optimization, performance, reliability, and operations.
• Build and maintain executive-level technical relationships, understanding customers' priorities and proactively identifying opportunities for AWS.
• Translate customer feedback into technical requirements for AWS engineering and contribute to improvements.
• Design cloud-native reference architectures and create technical content to share best practices with customers and the broader Solutions Architect community.
• Collaborate with AWS specialist teams to bring the right expertise into engagements, including AI and data analytics.

Skills

Software development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Tools

AWS technologies

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the UK Public Sector is hiring a Solutions Architect to support Education and Research customers, helping universities and public bodies adopt cloud technologies.

You will build executive relationships, guide migrations, and collaborate with sales and specialist teams to scope and deliver well-architected solutions.

This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities to work on generative AI and data analytics while shaping cloud strategies.