Principal Solutions Architect, Lead Solutions Architect for UK Public Sector
Principal Solutions Architect, Lead Solutions Architect for UK Public Sector
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to join our thriving technical community and growing public sector business in the UK. You would be part of a friendly and supportive team working together to bring the latest in cloud computing technologies to organisations serving the public.
As a Principal Solutions Architect you will be responsible for serving as a strategic advisor across UK Public Sector. You will be responsible for providing sales leadership guidance developing market-specific technical strategies. You will be responsible for informing AWS senior leaders business and technical decisions leveraging your broad market awareness to anticipate industry trends and customer needs. Your impact will extend beyond individual customers as you will be responsible for supporting broader organizational initiatives across multiple industries.
In this role your creativity and strategic technical experience will support customers at an executive level to solve business challenges and drive change.
You will be a thought leader and initiate the creation and sharing of best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers for example) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology.
This role will contribute to shaping the future of cloud computing technology across the UK Public Sector.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Solutions Architect you are a technical leader and strategic influencer for customers and the organization. You combine strong business acumen with deep technical skills to architect solutions to significantly complex problems. You excel at decomposing complex issues into straightforward elegant solutions.
You operate in highly ambiguous environments where business objectives opportunities technology strategy and solution design are undefined. You leverage your extensive experience industry knowledge and business context expertise to influence the long-term strategic direction of customers. You identify both immediate and future risks and constraints and advise customers on the right trade-offs to meet their long-term goals.
You are a trusted advisor to senior customer leadership building consensus and alignment across diverse teams to deliver impactful solutions. Your work results in measurable long-term benefits to the customers business. You are a thought leader curating and delivering strategic technical content that educates the broader community.
Within the organization you are a key influencer contributing to strategic planning identifying gaps and opportunities and advocating for the development of critical future skills. You actively develop and mentor other Solutions Architects ensuring the continued growth of the community.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data and analytics
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications
- Experience in producing technology strategies and thought leadership across multiple Public Sector industries.
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database 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
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
As a Principal Solutions Architect you will be responsible for serving as a strategic advisor across UK Public Sector. You will be responsible for providing sales leadership guidance developing market-specific technical strategies. You will be responsible for informing AWS senior leaders business and technical decisions leveraging your broad market awareness to anticipate industry trends and customer needs. Your impact will extend beyond individual customers as you will be responsible for supporting broader organizational initiatives across multiple industries.
In this role your creativity and strategic technical experience will support customers at an executive level to solve business challenges and drive change.
You will be a thought leader and initiate the creation and sharing of best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers for example) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology.
This role will contribute to shaping the future of cloud computing technology across the UK Public Sector.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Solutions Architect you are a technical leader and strategic influencer for customers and the organization. You combine strong business acumen with deep technical skills to architect solutions to significantly complex problems. You excel at decomposing complex issues into straightforward elegant solutions.
You operate in highly ambiguous environments where business objectives opportunities technology strategy and solution design are undefined. You leverage your extensive experience industry knowledge and business context expertise to influence the long-term strategic direction of customers. You identify both immediate and future risks and constraints and advise customers on the right trade-offs to meet their long-term goals.
You are a trusted advisor to senior customer leadership building consensus and alignment across diverse teams to deliver impactful solutions. Your work results in measurable long-term benefits to the customers business. You are a thought leader curating and delivering strategic technical content that educates the broader community.
Within the organization you are a key influencer contributing to strategic planning identifying gaps and opportunities and advocating for the development of critical future skills. You actively develop and mentor other Solutions Architects ensuring the continued growth of the community.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data and analytics
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications
- Experience in producing technology strategies and thought leadership across multiple Public Sector industries.
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database 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
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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