Amazon Principal Solutions Architect Energy & 

United Kingdom, England, London 

258028446

Our Energy & Utilities Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain, and support customer engagements that require deep industry expertise, and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. Principal Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their customers by:• Collaborating closely with C-Level Line of Business and Technical stakeholders
• Defining technical trends that can affect the industry as a whole
• Publishing reference architectures
• A technical and written Thought Leader
Key job responsibilities
• You will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Energy & Utilities customers and partners
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Energy & Utilities, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
• Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Energy & Utilities industry workloads and applications on AWS
• Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology, including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 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

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation 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