Senior Analytics Solution Architect, Amazon
UK & Ireland, Amazon Global Sales, AWS
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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