Senior Solutions Architect, UKI Financial Services

Overview

As a trusted technical advisor in AWS’s Financial Services team, you shape and influence cloud adoption for Capital Markets customers in the UK. You own the technical relationship, guiding security, cost, performance, and reliability while delivering prescriptive, business-value solutions. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft architectures, content, and roadmaps that reflect customer needs and AWS capabilities. This role offers impact at scale, integrating architecture, strategy, and customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship with the customer and act as their trusted advisor
• Lead architecture design discussions, reviews, and workshops across trading, risk, post-trade, market data, asset and wealth management domains
• Design scalable and secure solutions leveraging AWS services and emerging technologies (AI/ML, HPC)
• Collaborate with sales teams to develop and execute customer engagement strategies
• Create technical content and reference architectures for capital markets use cases
• Influence AWS product roadmap based on customer needs

Key requirements

• Bachelor in computer science, engineering, mathematics
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience communicating with executive-level stakeholders or clients
• Experience in one or more technology domain areas (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)

• excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
• stakeholder management and collaboration
• ability to lead discussions and workshops
• cloud computing
• software development
• systems engineering

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