Senior Solutions Architect - UK Public Sector, Central Government
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Drive technical relationships and cloud architecture adoption for UK public sector and central government customers.
Key job responsibilities
As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.
Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, 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.
In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement or document cloud-native reference architectures with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community.
You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (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 challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.
Basic qualifications
- Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- Eligible and willing to undergo UK Security Clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
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Senior Solutions Architect - UK Public Sector, Central Government at Amazon scores 20 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.
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- Walk me through how you've used Aws in your day-to-day work.
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