Amazon Principal Solutions Architect UK Public Sector Central Government 

United Kingdom, England, London 

332671815

Key job responsibilities
As an AWS Principal Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of senior technical relationships with customers. Driving innovation through thought leadership and practice initiatives ultimately improving the lives of UK Citizens. Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS capabilities, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.You will take a central role in the creation and sharing of recommended practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
It's a truly varied role, that allows you to play to your strengths.The team is based across the UK supporting our customers across multiple locations, there is flexibility in location.• Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps. • Have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical solutions. • Experience directing technical and/or organisational change of significant complexity • Verbal and written communication skills, with business-fluent English, to facilitate discussions in a customer organisation, as well as the technical background that enables you to easily interact with and give guidance to customers working in operational roles. • Already hold, or be willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks.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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS
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- Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Already hold, or be willing to undergo, government security vetting and clearance checks.

- 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
- Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent