Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Principal Solutions Architect, FSI, WW FSI GTM Solutions Architecture Team

Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of industry knowledge, technical depth, and strong interpersonal skills. As the AWS Financial Services Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with some of the world's largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

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. Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:

1. Identifying patterns
2. Defining technical trends that can affect the industry
3. Publishing reference architectures
4. Building industry quickstarts and other development kits
5. Collecting technical best practices in the industry
6. Establishing credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers' business problems

The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendor or system integrator. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise and an understanding of various software development methodologies, including cloud DevOps.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. With the broader Financial Services team, develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry.
2. Establish technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners.
3. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
4. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
5. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
6. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
7. Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.
8. Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS.
9. Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes.
10. Travel may be required for this role, up to 25%.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
• Experience working in Financial Services organizations and implementing solutions in a regulated environment; driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity.
• Experience working as an architect, designing and implementing large-scale solutions in the Financial Services industry.
• Solid understanding of virtualization and/or cloud computing technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• A strong understanding of AWS or other large-scale cloud services providers, and cloud-based services and delivery modes (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Deep experience with FSI-related applications, such as core insurance or banking systems, or big data architectures.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a virtual team environment.
• AWS certifications.

Posted: December 20, 2024

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