Senior Messaging & Event-Driven Architect - Cloud Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an expert in messaging and event-driven architectures to guide EMEA customers in designing resilient, scalable solutions using SNS, SQS, MQ, and related services. Youll advise on migrating from on-premises brokers, craft reference architectures, and share best practices for pub/sub and event-driven patterns.

Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive adoption, author technical content, and contribute to open-source discussions, shaping AWS messaging

Qualifications

• Experience with architecture or system engineering.
• Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Experience as a technical specialist in customer-facing roles.
• Experience designing or operating messaging and event-driven systems in production environments (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, TIBCO, Amazon SQS/SNS).

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical advisor for messaging and event-driven architecture engagements across EMEA customers.
• Design and validate architectures using Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, Amazon MQ, and related services tailored to customer workloads.
• Guide customers migrating from on-premises message brokers to AWS managed services.
• Develop reference architectures, patterns, and best practices for pub/sub, point-to-point, fan-out, and event-driven integration scenarios.
• Partner with AWS service teams to influence product roadmaps based on customer feedback and field observations.
• Create technical content — blog posts, workshops, re:Invent sessions, and whitepapers — that establishes thought leadership in the messaging space.
• Collaborate with account teams and other specialists to identify messaging-related opportunities and accelerate customer adoption.
• Engage with the open-source community and help customers understand when managed services vs. self-hosted solutions best fit their needs

Skills

Architecture design

Technical storytelling

Customer-facing experience

Messaging systems experience

Tools

Amazon MQ

Amazon SNS/SQS

EventBridge

RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka

ActiveMQ

AMQP

MQTT

STOMP

JMS

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an expert in messaging and event-driven architectures to guide EMEA customers in designing resilient, scalable solutions using SNS, SQS, MQ, and related services. Youll advise on migrating from on-premises brokers, craft reference architectures, and share best practices for pub/sub and event-driven patterns.

Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive adoption, author technical content, and contribute to open-source discussions, shaping AWS messaging