Enterprise Architect à Grande-Bretagne

Job ID: 3041539 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing public sector business in the UK. You would be part of a friendly and supportive team, working together to bring the latest in cloud computing technologies to organisations serving the public.

As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for serving as a strategic advisor across UK Public Sector. You will be responsible for providing sales leadership guidance, developing market-specific technical strategies. You will be responsible for informing AWS senior leaders' business and technical decisions, leveraging your broad market awareness to anticipate industry trends and customer needs. Your impact will extend beyond individual customers, as you will be responsible for supporting broader organizational initiatives across multiple industries.

In this role, your creativity and strategic technical experience will support customers at an executive level to solve business challenges and drive change.

You will be a thought leader, and initiate the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers for example) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology.

This role will contribute to shaping the future of cloud computing technology across the UK Public Sector.


Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Solutions Architect, you are a technical leader and strategic influencer for customers and the organization. You combine strong business acumen with deep technical skills to architect solutions to significantly complex problems. You excel at decomposing complex issues into straightforward, elegant solutions.

You operate in highly ambiguous environments where business objectives, opportunities, technology strategy, and solution design are undefined. You leverage your extensive experience, industry knowledge, and business context expertise to influence the long-term strategic direction of customers. You identify both immediate and future risks and constraints, and advise customers on the right trade-offs to meet their long-term goals.

You are a trusted advisor to senior customer leadership, building consensus and alignment across diverse teams to deliver impactful solutions. Your work results in measurable, long-term benefits to the customer's business. You are a thought leader, curating and delivering strategic technical content that educates the broader community.

Within the organization, you are a key influencer, contributing to strategic planning, identifying gaps and opportunities, and advocating for the development of critical future skills. You actively develop and mentor other Solutions Architects, ensuring the continued growth of the community.

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- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
- Experience in producing technology strategies, and thought leadership across multiple Public Sector industries.

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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