Senior Retail & CPG Cloud Solutions Architect

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

Job summary

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Solutions Architect focused on the retail and consumer goods sector to partner with customers as a trusted advisor. You will design and advocate technology-driven solutions, build executive-level relationships, and drive industry-specific adoption of AWS services and best practices.

In this role, you will shape long-term milestones, share learnings internally, and help transform customer workloads into scalable, reusable reference architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• 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 communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Responsibilities

• Promote AWS value and provide architectural/technical support to major retail and consumer goods companies.
• Build and own relationships with your customers’ senior leaders.
• Proactively identify new technical opportunities to positively impact customer’s business objectives
• Design customer solutions, applying judgement and experience in advising customers on short- and long-term implications of trade-offs
• Define long‑term milestones for customers' existing and new business success.
• Disseminate AWS technical information internally and externally through seminars, hands‑on sessions, and workshops.
• Transform delivered solutions into reference designs or reusable artifacts for other Solutions Architects to leverage with their customers
• Own the root cause resolution of complex problems, be it for a customer or an internal problem
• Contribute to AWS platform improvements working with service development teams based on customer feedback.
• Be the thought leader within AWS, working with regional and global technical teams and communities

Skills

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Executive communication

Industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

SAP

AWS

Job description

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Solutions Architect focused on the retail and consumer goods sector to partner with customers as a trusted advisor. You will design and advocate technology-driven solutions, build executive-level relationships, and drive industry-specific adoption of AWS services and best practices.

In this role, you will shape long-term milestones, share learnings internally, and help transform customer workloads into scalable, reusable reference architectures.