Senior Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

Amazon; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader seeks a Solutions Architect in the UK to work with major financial services clients. In this role, you will help organizations adopt AWS services and create scalable cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a relevant field and strong communication skills to interact with both technical and business stakeholders. This is an opportunity to drive significant revenue growth while ensuring customer success. A passion for cloud technology and innovative solutions is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent, or related experience.
• Experience in IT development, consulting, or software industries.
• Ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud computing

Communication skills

Customer advocacy

Technical problem solving

Infrastructure architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent

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 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.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (kept in plain text):

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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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