Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon
UKI Financial Services
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
- 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
Desirable
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience in the financial services industry
What the job involves
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join our Financial Services team, focusing on Capital Markets customers in the UK
- As a trusted technical advisor, you will help leading financial institutions innovate and transform their business using AWS technologies
- Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud
- They own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency
- They work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology
- To do this they collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem
- In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible within a diverse and evolving market
- You will work closely with an Account Executive to help customers achieve their outcomes using AWS technology
- The 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 sound technical foundation and a desire to learn
- Own the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide
- Lead technical discussions, architecture design and reviews, and workshops across trading, risk, post-trade, market data, asset and wealth management domains to drive business value
- Design scalable and secure solutions leveraging AWS services and emerging technologies (AI/ML, HPC)
- Collaborate with sales teams to develop and execute customer engagement strategies
- Create technical content and reference architectures for capital markets use cases
- Influence AWS product roadmap based on customer needs
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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