Senior Analytics Architect – Cloud Data Platforms (UK & IE)

Amazon Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Analytics Solutions Architect to design end-to-end analytics platforms, leveraging AWS services like Redshift, Glue, Kinesis, and QuickSight. You will translate business needs into scalable data architectures across data lakes, lakehouses, and real-time pipelines.

You will lead migrations from legacy systems, deliver PoCs, and shape analytics reference architectures, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Experience architecting analytics or data platform solutions (data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI, or real-time streaming)
• Experience communicating with executive level stakeholders or clients
• Hands-on experience with AWS analytics services such as Redshift, Athena, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, or QuickSight
• Experience migrating enterprise data warehouses or Hadoop environments to cloud-native analytics platforms

Responsibilities

• Architect analytics solutions - design data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming architectures using AWS analytics services
• Lead analytics modernisation - guide customers migrating from legacy platforms to cloud-native analytics
• Partner with AWS AGS sales teams to identify analytics opportunities and shape deal strategy
• Deliver proofs of concept - build prototypes demonstrating performance, cost optimisation, and scalability
• Create reference architectures - develop reusable blueprints for streaming ingestion, CDC pipelines, data mesh, and governed data sharing patterns
• Advise enterprise customers - translate BI, reporting, and advanced analytics requirements into scalable designs
• Influence AWS service roadmaps - provide customer feedback to analytics product teams, participate in private betas
• Collaborate across specialist teams - work with AI/ML, Security, and Migration specialists to connect analytics foundations to ML workloads

Skills

Analytics architecture

Cloud computing

Stakeholder engagement

Technical leadership

Data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Amazon Redshift

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Kinesis

OpenSearch

Job description

Amazon in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Analytics Solutions Architect to design end-to-end analytics platforms, leveraging AWS services like Redshift, Glue, Kinesis, and QuickSight. You will translate business needs into scalable data architectures across data lakes, lakehouses, and real-time pipelines.

You will lead migrations from legacy systems, deliver PoCs, and shape analytics reference architectures, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making.