Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon
London
3 days ago
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of financial services industry knowledge, technical depth, and strong interpersonal skills. As an industry specialist, AWS Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the worlds largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

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 the public sector.

Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:

  1. Identifying patterns
  2. Defining technical trends that can affect the industry
  3. Publishing reference architectures
  4. Building industry quickstarts and other development kits
  5. Collecting technical best practices in the industry
  6. Establishing credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers business problems

The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendor or system integrator. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise and an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.

Key job responsibilities

  1. With the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry.
  2. You will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners.
  3. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
  4. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
  5. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
  6. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
  7. Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.
  8. Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS.
  9. Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes.
  10. Travel may be required for this role, up to 25%.

About the team

Diverse Experiences
AWS 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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers 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 & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
  • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
  • Experience working in Financial Services organizations and implementing solutions in a regulated environment; driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.
  • Experience working as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions in the Financial Services industry.
  • Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Knowledge of distributed systems 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.
  • A strong understanding of AWS or other large-scale cloud services providers, and cloud-based services and delivery modes (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
  • Deep experience with FSI-related applications, such as core insurance or banking systems, or big data architectures.
  • AWS certifications.

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 (here) 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visitherefor more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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