Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Solutions Architect, where you'll leverage your expertise in financial services to design innovative cloud architectures. Collaborate with industry leaders and help shape the future of cloud adoption in financial services. This role offers the chance to work on complex challenges, influence technical strategies, and educate clients on the transformative power of cloud solutions. If you're passionate about technology and thrive in dynamic environments, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving industry.

Qualifications

• Experience as a solutions architect in Financial Services or related fields.
• Strong communication skills for diverse audiences, including C-level.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical strategies to accelerate AWS adoption in Financial Services.
• Educate clients on AWS value propositions and ensure successful cloud deployments.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Solutions Architecture

Financial Services Expertise

Communication Skills

Virtualization

DevOps Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics

Tools

AWS

Distributed Systems

Job description

Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Job ID: 2660360 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of industry knowledge, technical depth, and strong interpersonal skills. As the AWS Financial Services Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the world’s largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:

1. Identifying patterns
2. Defining technical trends that can affect the industry
3. Publishing reference architectures
4. Building industry quickstarts and other development kits
5. Collecting technical best practices in the industry
6. Establishing credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that solve customers’ business problems

The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendor or system integrator. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise. They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. With the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry.
2. Establish technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners.
3. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
4. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
5. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
6. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
7. Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.
8. Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS.
9. Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes.
10. Travel may be required for this role, up to 25%.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
• Experience working in Financial Services organizations and implementing solutions in a regulated environment; driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.
• Experience working as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions in the Financial Services industry.
• Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• A strong understanding of AWS or other large-scale cloud services providers, and cloud-based services and delivery modes (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Deep experience with FSI-related applications, such as core insurance or banking systems, or big data architectures.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a virtual team environment.
• AWS certifications.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build.