Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Insurance

This role is within the UK organization and you would be working primarily with Financial Services customers across the UK with a focus on Insurance.

Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption. Solutions Architects also take a leading role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.

Solutions Architects 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 customers 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.

You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will learn something new from your customers your peers and your own experiments.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover invent and build on behalf of customers.

Amazon has always been and always will be committed to diversity and inclusion. We seek builders from all backgrounds to join our teams and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic original and best selves to work.


Key job responsibilities
- As a Solutions Architect you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
- You will 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.
- Share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for the AWS platform.
- Create and capture best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers code samples blog posts).
- Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops user groups meetups public speaking online videos or conferences).
- Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring coaching and mentoring others.
- Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customers outcomes.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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
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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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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- 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 in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

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