Senior Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

Amazon Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in London is seeking a Solutions Architect to work with major financial services clients. You will create scalable cloud architecture, drive customer success, and implement cloud strategies. Ideal candidates will hold a degree in computer science and possess experience in IT development and infrastructure architecture. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, technical breadth, and collaborative skills, offering a dynamic work environment within a diverse team.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Mentorship programs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in IT development or implementation in software or internet industries.
• Experience in infrastructure architecture and cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to ensure long-term success with AWS.
• Formulate and execute a cloud adoption strategy.
• Educate customers by leading workshops and hands-on classes.

Skills

Technical breadth and depth

Interpersonal skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder communication

Sales acumen

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Cloud computing technologies

Networking

Security solutions

Job description

Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical breadth/depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Solutions Architect, you will partner with some of the world’s largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a small set of global financial services customers. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record to connect technology to measurable business value. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for: Enjoy working with large, global customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers. Have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• As a key member of the account team, partner with customers to ensure their long-term success by helping them harness the power of AWS services to accelerate their business.
• Formulate and execute a cloud adoption strategy that delights our customers and builds strong relationships that lead to strategic revenue streams that exceed AWS objectives.
• Become a trusted advisor by gaining deep knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and best practices, and sharing that knowledge with clients, other SAs and the wider AWS builder community.
• Act as the voice of the customer for AWS service teams to enhance the AWS platform.
• Work with other SAs to develop reusable solutions to common business and architectural problems.
• Educate customers by leading workshops and hands-on classes to demonstrate how to use AWS services.
• Network and build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customer organizations to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blog posts and open source projects, and speak at public events.
• Help hire, on-board and train new SAs via mentorship and builder programs.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 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

- Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

- Experience working with end user or developer communities

- Experience in technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services

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