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Description

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing business in UK as part of the UK Public Sector team. The role will be aligned to one or more of our largest strategic customers within UK Public Sector. You will join a friendly and supportive team, working together to bring the latest in disruptive cloud computing technologies and innovations to our Public Sector customers. Our Public Sector teams help customers build a deeper understanding of hyper-scale cloud technology and application architectures, and they have the consultative skills required to drive deliver successful outcomes.

Key job responsibilities

As an AWS Principal Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of senior technical relationships with customers. Driving innovation through thought leadership and practice initiatives ultimately improving the lives of UK Citizens. Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS capabilities, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.

Principal Solutions Architects work on complex customer solutions and opportunities. They have an instrumental role in developing both the strategy and the team itself. They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to speed-up innovation across their customer segment. Externally, they are recognized as progressive and innovative thinkers and influence the strategy of our customers. Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures with the AWS Solutions Architect community.

You will take a central role in the creation and sharing of recommended practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while investigating the impossible, come build the future with us.

A day in the life

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

About the team

Every day as a Solutions Architect is different. One day you could be deep diving into technical/business challenges to explore the art of the possible, the next you could be writing content and thought provoking ideas that helps our customers accelerate, the next coaching others on a technology you have expertise in.

It's a truly varied role, that allows you to play to your strengths.

The team is based across the UK supporting our customers across multiple locations, there is flexibility in location.• Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps. • Have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical solutions. • Experience directing technical and/or organisational change of significant complexity • Verbal and written communication skills, with business-fluent English, to facilitate discussions in a customer organisation, as well as the technical background that enables you to easily interact with and give guidance to customers working in operational roles. • Already hold, or be willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks.

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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement

• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

• Already hold, or be willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent

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. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.