Senior Solutions Architect, EMEA Partner Solutions Architecture

Amazon.com, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead technical strategy for enterprise, multi-region deals with Global System Integrators. You’ll own architecture, shape deals, and work with partner teams from identification to delivery readiness.

You will enforce Well-Architected design, size workloads, and build business cases with TCO/ROI, while aligning with AWS accounts and alliance PSAs. 25% travel expected.

Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud solutions and architectures.
• Experience with IT development or consulting in software or Internet industries.
• Ability to lead multi-workload, multi-account cloud initiatives and regions.
• Experience engaging with partner ecosystems and large SI relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy for multi-workload, multi-account deals worth $10M+ ARR.
• Own architecture decisions and influence deal shape and outcomes.
• Collaborate with GSI deal teams, AWS accounts, and partners to align plans.
• Develop scalable reference architectures and Well-Architected reviews.
• Translate technical plans into executable deal terms and milestones.

Skills

Executive communication

Cloud architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect, EMEA Partner Solutions Architecture

Job ID: 10589657 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

The largest enterprise transformation deals are won or lost through Global System Integrators (GSIs). The top-tier GSIs own the transformational relationship, but they need AWS technical leadership to shape, de-risk, and close multi-workload deals. These deals run for 18-36 months, and a single deal can be worth more than an entire portfolio of smaller opportunities.

AWS is hiring a Senior Partner Solutions Architect to lead technical strategy on these pursuits. This isn't an advisory role. You'll own the technical architecture and deal strategy. You'll work alongside the GSI's deal teams from the moment an opportunity is identified until it's ready for delivery. Your success is measured in the annual run rate (ARR) of the deals won.

Location: UK/NL/DE/ES

What you'll do in this role

• Lead large, complex pursuits. You'll own the technical strategy for multi-workload, multi-account, often multi-region deals worth $10M+ ARR, and you'll make the final call on architecture.
• Engage early and shape the deal. You'll run deal clinics with GSI partners to build and qualify pipeline, shaping the technical approach and the commercial framing that follows from it.
• Bring architectural rigour. You'll enforce Well-Architected design, size workloads, de-risk the technical path, and build the business case (TCO, ROI) that gives customers the confidence to commit.
• Orchestrate the ecosystem. You'll align GSI deal teams, AWS account teams, specialists, and service teams around one executable plan.
• Support the deal mechanics. As the architecture takes shape, you'll help translate it into the practical terms a deal needs. This includes teaming, milestones, funding, and consumption while working alongside the partner so the technical plan and the agreement stay aligned.
• Hand off cleanly, then move on. You'll align the consumption model to the partner's Statement of Work milestones. You'll also hand delivery context over to the alliance and account teams, then move on to the next high-value pursuit.
• Build mechanisms that scale. You'll turn what you learn into playbooks and deal clinic frameworks, including reusable patterns for structuring these engagements so alliance teams can run these deals on their own.
• You'll work closely with Partner Development Managers, alliance PSAs, account managers, Account SAs, and Customer Success Managers. You'll also influence senior stakeholders at the GSI, the customer, and AWS.
• The role requires roughly 25% travel to meet partners and customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead technical engagement and own the architecture on GSI-led opportunities of $10M+ ARR, from identification through to delivery readiness.
• Turn customer transformation roadmaps into clear, costed AWS solutions, and explain technical choices in terms of business outcomes.
• Work through the GSI partner and respect its ownership of the customer relationship.
• Design enterprise-scale architectures, landing zones, multi-account structures, and migration strategies, and run Well-Architected reviews.
• Build proofs of concept, reference architectures, and implementation guides, and review and approve architectures that the GSI develops.
• Develop business cases, TCO analyses, risk assessments, and mitigation plans that move deals to commitment.
• Ensure the technical solution translates into the partner's commercial model.
• Work with alliance PSAs to build GSI capability through certifications, reusable architecture patterns, and independent solution delivery.
• Support deals through to revenue realisation with architecture reviews, specialist support, and get-to-green plans when delivery goes off track.
• Share customer and partner feedback with AWS product and engineering teams to influence the roadmap.
• Adapt solutions to industry-specific regulatory and compliance requirements across multiple industries.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

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