Senior Analytics Solution Architect, UK & Ireland, Amazon Global Sales, AWS

Amazon is hiring a Senior Analytics Solution Architect, UK & Ireland, Amazon Global Sales, AWS in London, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Drive the future of analytics and data intelligence by designing architectures that turn raw data into actionable insights at scale. As a Senior Analytics Solutions Architect, you'll partner with customers to architect end-to-end analytics platforms from data lakes and lakehouses to real-time streaming pipelines, business intelligence, and advanced analytics leveraging the breadth of AWS's analytics portfolio including Amazon Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Kinesis, QuickSight, and OpenSearch.

You'll serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers navigating complex analytics modernisation challenges whether migrating from legacy on-premises data warehouses, building unified data platforms, implementing streaming analytics, or operationalising ML-ready data foundations. You'll translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable, cost-effective analytics architectures that accelerate time-to-insight.

You will join a team of specialist Solutions Architects who live and breathe data passionate about query performance, storage optimisation, governance frameworks, and helping customers build data-driven cultures. We thrive on solving the hardest analytics challenges, contributing to AWS service evolution through direct feedback loops with engineering teams, and elevating the broader analytics community through thought leadership, workshops, and reference architectures.

Key job responsibilities
Architect analytics solutions — design data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming architectures using AWS analytics services (Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Kinesis, QuickSight, OpenSearch)

Lead analytics modernisation — guide customers migrating from legacy platforms (Teradata, Oracle, Netezza, Hadoop) to cloud-native analytics, including ETL refactoring and performance validation

Partner with AWS AGS sales teams — collaborate with Account Managers and Account Solutions Architects to identify analytics opportunities, shape deal strategy, and position AWS against competitive alternatives

Deliver Proofs of Concept — build prototypes demonstrating query performance, cost optimisation, and scalability for customer-specific analytics workloads

Create reference architectures — develop reusable blueprints for streaming ingestion, CDC pipelines, data mesh, and governed data sharing patterns

Advise enterprise customers — translate BI, reporting, and advanced analytics requirements into scalable, cost-effective technical designs

Influence AWS service roadmaps — provide customer feedback to analytics product teams, participate in private betas, and shape future service capabilities

Collaborate across specialist teams — work with AI/ML, Security, and Migration specialists to connect analytics foundations to downstream ML and GenAI workloads

About the team
We're the AWS Analytics Specialist Solutions Architecture team — a group of data professionals deeply passionate about query performance, lakehouse design, and helping customers turn data into decisions. We work across the full AWS analytics portfolio, partnering with service teams to shape product direction and with customers to solve their hardest data challenges.

We value diverse backgrounds — whether you come from data engineering, BI, data science, or software development. Our inclusive team culture empowers everyone to contribute authentically, and our employee-led communities celebrate the differences that make us stronger. We also prioritise work-life balance through flexible working arrangements, because we believe sustainable careers produce the best outcomes — for our customers and ourselves.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- 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
- Experience architecting analytics or data platform solutions (e.g. data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI, or real-time streaming)
- Experience delivering technical presentations, workshops, or thought leadership content to senior technical and business audiences

Preferred qualifications

- AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification
- Knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and database schema
- Hands-on experience with AWS analytics services such as Amazon Redshift, Athena, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, MSK, or QuickSight
- Experience migrating enterprise data warehouses (e.g. Teradata, Oracle Exadata, Netezza) or Hadoop environments to cloud-native analytics platforms

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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 visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

How we rate this

Senior Analytics Solution Architect, UK & Ireland, Amazon Global Sales, AWS at Amazon rates 71 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Senior Analytics Solution Architect, UK & Ireland, Amazon Global Sales, AWS is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in GB, London.
The job was posted on October 28, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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