Amazon Senior Solution Architect - Global National Security & Defence 

United Kingdom, England, London 

348456397

As a Solutions Architect in the Global National Security, Defence, and National Law Enforcement Team you will be supporting some of the most important national government multinational Security, Defence, and Law Enforcement organisations to accelerate and scale innovation, reduce costs, drive efficiency and use cloud technology in support of their missions.You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).Key job responsibilities
* Owning the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor.* Educating customers and partners on the latest AWS technologies and design patterns.* Engage with business leaders, technologists, engineers, and analysts among Europe’s Security & Defence customers to help them to solve problems and gain insight using the latest technologies and methodologies.* Help customers imagine the art of the possible, challenge existing mental models and constraints, accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their business outcomes.* Take part in and lead deep-dive education and technology design exercises to create world-class, Well Architected solutions for Europe’s Security, Defence, and Law Enforcement organisations and the AWS partners who work with them, including systems integrators and ISVs.* Advocate on the behalf of the customer. to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform to influence the service roadmap.* Supporting other members of the account team and aid bid teams in reviewing technical responses to proposals.* Building on your existing technical breadth and industry experience, you will develop expertise in AWS technologies to the point that you can not only contribute to but lead deep architecture discussions around systems and applications in the cloud.* Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and customers’ needs.* Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor other members of the team.
A day in the life
* You will work with technical business development and technical account managers engaged with NATO and NATO member countries to understand AWS cloud capabilities.* You will work with other Solution Architects located in Asia, North America, and Europe to develop technical resources including reference architectures, technical presentations, demonstrations, and published papers designed to help national security, defence, and national law enforcement customers understand and adopt AWS cloud services.* You will participate in executive (c-suite, flag officer level) customer meetings where you will adapt technical presentations to the appropriate level to both earn trust and understanding among diverse customer representation.
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Mentorship & Career Growth

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
- Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients