Lead Solutions Architect, Cloud Optimization

AWS Cloud Optimization is seeking a Solutions Architect who will curate define and maintain best practices for technology and industry-specific workloads in accordance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework collaborating with global subject-matter experts. We want to help our customers understand how best practices apply to their workloads.

AWS Well-Architected Lenses extend the guidance offered by AWS Well-Architected to specific industry and technology domains such as generative AI machine learning (ML) data analytics serverless high performance computing (HPC) IoT SAP streaming media the games industry hybrid networking and financial services. To fully evaluate workloads customers use applicable lenses together with the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

The transformation from traditional linear distribution architectures to cloud architectures is accelerating at an amazing pace. Your role will be a thought leader and a community leader within AWS with a focus on the development and updates of prescriptive guidance that will help AWS customers identify their operational security reliability performance sustainability and cost requirements for workloads running on AWS that are tailored to their specific industry needs or for specific technology domains. You will then be available as a consultant during the development and operational phases. You will work with our product teams to define requirements and features desired by our customers. You will be a member of the global architecture subject matter experts ensuring success for customers that develop and operate workloads in the AWS Cloud. Along with developing best practice guidance and whitepapers you will also be speaking at AWS events creating and delivering labs and creating other content including reference implementations.

This senior autonomous role will focus on customer-facing guidance through remote and on-site engagements participation in the global architecture guidance leadership and speaking at AWS events. The role will also include collaboration with other AWS teams developing guidance frameworks for AWS customers. (e.g. Well-Architected framework (WA) Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) AWS Solutions Builders AWS Product Teams and more).

This role will work closely with our existing Well-Architected Pillar and Content Leads and Solutions Architecture teams. Location will be office based in London or Manchester UK.

Key job responsibilities
- This is an opportunity to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption and growth.

- As a trusted advisor solve some of the most complex and large-scale challenges faced by AWS customers ranging from rapidly growing cloud-native start-ups to global enterprises migrating to AWS.
- As a Thought Leader provide the focus to a community of Subject Matter Experts to create content that will better deliver prescriptive guidance to AWS Customers.
- Constantly gather feedback from AWS customers to gain a deep understanding of their needs and technical challenges and to ensure they achieve the greatest value from AWS as they scale.
- Meet with AWS customers who implement cloud workloads at scale to understand and communicate any previously unidentified best practices.
- Use feedback from AWS customers AWS field team members and AWS service teams develop and improve guidance artifacts and resources.
- Help with uplift and enablement for cloud workload implementations and capabilities of customers while mentoring other AWS field team members.

A day in the life
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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.



About the team
We are a Specialist SA team who deliver best practice knowledge and enablement through engagements thought leadership evangelism and ownership of re-usable assets.

We help drive adoption of AWS services through the use of the Well-Architected & Cloud Adoption Frameworks and Tools.

We also support the other services that our organization owns; Trusted Advisor & AWS Health.

We work with internal AWS teams AWS Account teams Partner and customers. We help advocate for success and technical excellence to help who we work with move through the cloud adoption journey.


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- Experience writing for developer and technical audiences - blog product documentation technical information
- Experience designing building operating and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Experience in identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve automate standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes or experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience in cloud architecture
- Hands-on experience building deploying and running production Cloud workloads and experienced with industry architecture and compliance frameworks

- Experience with digital asset management tools
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python Java Scala or NodeJS
- AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification
- Masters degree or above in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
- Experience as a Senior Solutions Architect/Consultant supporting Cloud workloads across a variety of implementations.

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