This role can be based in Amsterdam, Paris, Stockholm, Madrid, or Milan

Would you like to help the largest Private Equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies leverage new technologies to improve their operations? Would you like to use your IT leadership experience to build relationships with technical leaders, C-level executives, and influencers at all levels across the PE segment?

As a Private Equity Solutions Architect, you will work directly with Private Equity firms, their portfolio companies, and consulting partners to help them adopt new technologies and build new solutions to make the most of the Cloud. You will be at the crossroads of business and technology, engaging with organisations at all stages of cloud adoption. You will provide thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value that technology creates for our customers. You will practice your creativity by linking technology to tangible solutions and business outcomes. You will educate PE firms and their portfolio companies about the art of the possible, defining and developing cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have the opportunity to present publicly at AWS conferences and industry events.

The ideal candidate will possess a technical background that enables them to drive customer engagement with business, finance or IT executives at the highest levels of our PE customers. You will have experience working with complex IT environments including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security, and operations. You will also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of businesses

The Private Equity Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required, provided you have a balanced technical foundation and a desire to learn. You will develop deep expertise in AWS technologies, as well as a broad set of tools and methodologies of how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of your customers. We value your passion to discover, invent, and build on behalf of customers. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so you can make impactful contributions to architecture discussions with customers.

Amazon has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion. We seek builders from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
As a Private Equity Solutions Architect, you will work directly with Private Equity Firms and/or executives of their portfolio companies to design technology solutions to solve specific business challenges or accelerate business initiatives.

- Scoping and understand specific use cases to design appropriate AWS-based technical solutions (including, integrations with third party solutions).

- Own the technical relationship with PE firms and the C-suite of portfolio companies and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.

- Serve as a key technical member of the AWS PE team to help ensure customer success in architecting, building, migrating, or optimizing applications and services on the AWS platform.

- Build rapport with Executives at both PE firms and their portfolio companies leveraging your understanding of enterprise architecture, merger and acquisitions, migration and cost optimization of IT infrastructure and other key technologies

- Establish technical credibility with PE firms and their portfolio companies to lead discussions with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, Senior Developers, etc. from both customer and partners across the PE segment.

- Provide technical and architectural guidance to PE firms and their portfolio companies and help develop cost optimization strategies by deploying the right architecture given their budget constraints.

- Evangelize and educate key stakeholders with the Private Equity ecosystem about AWS technologies.

- Influence AWS's roadmap of new features and services based on customer feedback.

- Create and capture best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).

- Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching and mentoring others.

- Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.

About the team
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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working in (or with) Private Equity firms, Hedge Funds, or Investment Banking specifically defining technology strategy or IT implementations/integrations related to Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Experience working directly with customers (internal or external) in either technical pre-sales, post-sales, consulting, or customer support function.
- 7+ years of experience as a technical leader architecting, building, consulting, and/or operating large scale distributed applications and infrastructure.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working in a customer-facing role interacting with senior levels stakeholders include C-suite.
- Working knowledge of cloud native architectures and experience architecting, developing, deploying, and/or operating IT applications or infrastructure on AWS services (or other related cloud computing technologies).
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data or Analytics
- Broad technical knowledge of enterprise IT including: overall enterprise architecture, application development, database systems, server and desktop virtualisation, storage, data centre operations, networking, security, integrating enterprise applications etc.
- Working knowledge in a technology domain, distributed web or mobile applications, DevOps, serverless, enterprise workloads (SAP, VMware, Windows etc.), high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), complex networking implementations, highly secured workloads etc.
- Experience presenting in one to many public forums.