Strategic Retail & CPG Solutions Architect

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Solutions Architect focusing on the retail and consumer goods sector. You will work with major customers to design and promote architectural solutions, influencing long-term technology roadmaps while acting as a trusted technical advisor.

You will build executive-level relationships, identify opportunities, and collaborate with global teams to deliver scalable, architecture-driven outcomes across the AWS platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or equivalent is required.
• 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 (e.g., extensibility, flexibility, scalability, maintainability)
• 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 to capture industry solutions and sharing it across geographies to drive impact through reusable asset creation and maintenance.

Skills

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Infrastructure design

Executive stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Solutions Architect focusing on the retail and consumer goods sector. You will work with major customers to design and promote architectural solutions, influencing long-term technology roadmaps while acting as a trusted technical advisor.

You will build executive-level relationships, identify opportunities, and collaborate with global teams to deliver scalable, architecture-driven outcomes across the AWS platform.