Senior Solutions Architect, Solutions Architecture, UK Travel & Hospitality

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Solutions Architect, where you'll blend business acumen with technical expertise to revolutionize the Travel and Hospitality industry. In this role, you'll work directly with clients, guiding them through their cloud adoption journey, and helping them leverage AWS technology to achieve their business objectives. You'll engage with stakeholders at all levels, providing tailored insights and fostering innovation. This dynamic position offers the chance to influence decision-makers and drive meaningful change, all while collaborating with a diverse team of experts committed to customer success and technological advancement.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Employee discounts

Wellness programs

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud computing and software development.
• Strong background in systems engineering and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to align tech solutions with business goals.
• Educate clients on AWS technology through workshops and demos.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Software Development

Systems Engineering

Data & Analytics

Networking

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience in Infrastructure Solutions

Tools

SAP Business Suite

S/4HANA

SAP HANA

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect, Solutions Architecture, UK Travel & Hospitality

Job ID: 2910905 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Are you interested in joining a team that's revolutionizing the UK Travel and Hospitality industry's approach to technology?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists to work with our customers in the Travel and Hospitality industries. The Travel and Hospitality Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from various backgrounds. We work closely with AWS customers to understand their unique needs and challenges. Our Solutions Architects leverage their expertise to offer valuable insights and provide tailored guidance on how to best utilize AWS technology to create business value and drive innovation in the industry.

As part of this team, you will blend business acumen with technical guidance to effectively engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption, helping them reinvent their businesses using AWS technology, guiding them on their cloud journey. You will encourage innovation and drive change to achieve better customer outcomes. You will manage the overall technical relationship between our customers and AWS, and lead activities such as architecture reviews, white-boarding sessions, creating and delivering demos and technical workshops. You will engage at all levels of the organization to influence decision makers.

Internally, you’ll be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features as well as collaborating with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, and the AWS partner ecosystem.

In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will create and share best practices at scale including via the creation of technical content and reference architectures, for a variety of use cases. e.g. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Serverless and Container based architectures, Analytics and Big Data, DevOps or Security. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build on behalf of customers.

Key job responsibilities

1. Work directly with Travel and Hospitality customers to accelerate complex projects and align technological solutions with their long-term business objectives
2. Build relationships with customers, including the C-suite and Line of Business stakeholders, to establish yourself as their trusted advisor.
3. Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
4. Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures
5. Evangelise and educate about AWS technology through workshops, meetups, public speaking etc
6. Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your customer’s outcomes and your interests.

A day in the life

A typical day might start by preparing for a customer meeting, reviewing their current business goals and how technology could help achieve them. During the meeting, you'll listen to the customer's challenges, ask probing questions, bringing a point of view rich with industry context and value, offering strategic advice on possible solutions. After lunch, you could find yourself diving deep into your customer's technical architecture, collaborating with internal teams to design a custom solution. Later, you might lead a workshop to educate customers on new AWS features or write a blog post sharing best practices. Throughout the day, you'll balance relationship-building with technical work, continually learning to keep up to date with evolving technologies.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
2. Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
3. Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
2. Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
3. Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
4. Experience working in a technology focused role (eg. Architecture, Development, Infrastructure) within Travel, Transportation, Food Delivery, or Hospitality related industries

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.