Senior Analytics Solutions Architect – Cloud Data Lakes (UK & Ireland)

Aws Emea Sarl (Uk Branch); England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Aws Emea Sarl (Uk Branch) is seeking a Senior Analytics Solutions Architect to design end-to-end analytics platforms across data lakes, lakehouses, real-time pipelines, BI, and ML foundations using AWS services. You’ll partner with customers to translate business needs into scalable architectures that reduce cost and time-to-insight.

You’ll lead architecture engagements, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to reusable reference patterns while shaping AWS analytics product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Experience architecting analytics or data platform solutions (e.g. data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI, or real-time streaming).
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• Experience delivering technical presentations, workshops, or thought leadership content to senior technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect analytics solutions — design data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming architectures using AWS analytics services (Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Kinesis, QuickSight, OpenSearch)
• Lead analytics modernisation — migrate from legacy platforms to cloud-native analytics, including ETL refactoring and performance validation
• Partner with AWS AGS sales teams — collaborate with Account Managers and Solutions Architects to identify analytics opportunities and position AWS
• Deliver Proofs of Concept — build prototypes demonstrating query performance 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 analytics requirements into scalable designs
• Influence AWS service roadmaps — provide feedback to analytics product teams
• Collaborate across specialist teams — connect analytics foundations to downstream ML and GenAI workloads

Skills

Communication skills

Public speaking

Architecting analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Amazon Redshift

Athena

Glue

EMR

Kinesis

MSK

QuickSight

Job description

Aws Emea Sarl (Uk Branch) is seeking a Senior Analytics Solutions Architect to design end-to-end analytics platforms across data lakes, lakehouses, real-time pipelines, BI, and ML foundations using AWS services. You’ll partner with customers to translate business needs into scalable architectures that reduce cost and time-to-insight.

You’ll lead architecture engagements, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to reusable reference patterns while shaping AWS analytics product