Education & Research Cloud Solutions Architect

Amazon Inc.; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) UK Public Sector is growing its Solutions Architect team focused on Education and Research customers. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping universities and research institutions adopt cloud technologies that advance their missions and build executive‑level relationships.

Design cloud‑native reference architectures and create technical content such as white papers, blog posts, code samples, and workshops to share best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship with Education and Research customers, providing recommendations on architecture, security, cost optimisation, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain executive‑level technical relationships, understanding each customer's strategic priorities and proactively identifying opportunities where AWS can accelerate their goals.
• Advocate on behalf of customers internally by translating their feedback into technical requirements for AWS engineering teams and contributing to service improvements.
• Design cloud‑native reference architectures and create technical content such as white papers, blog posts, code samples, and workshops to share best practices with customers and the broader Solutions Architect community.
• Collaborate with specialist teams across AWS to bring the right expertise into customer engagements and help customers explore new use cases, including generative AI and data analytics.

Skills

Cloud computing

Architecture

Pre-sales/consulting

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) UK Public Sector is growing its Solutions Architect team focused on Education and Research customers. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping universities and research institutions adopt cloud technologies that advance their missions and build executive‑level relationships.

Design cloud‑native reference architectures and create technical content such as white papers, blog posts, code samples, and workshops to share best practices.