Senior Solutions Architect Manager – Energy and Utility EMEA, Energy and Utilities – EMEA

Overview

As Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture for North and Central Europe, you lead a high-caliber team of architects focused on transforming Energy and Utilities through AI-enabled cloud workloads. You act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite executives, aligning infrastructure choices with business outcomes and shaping regional adoption of AWS services. You’ll define regional strategy, influence product roadmap through customer voice, and mentor leaders delivering enterprise-scale AI and cloud modernization. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical influence to drive AI-first transformation.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing Solutions Architecture team with a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
• Develop and execute technical strategy for major Energy accounts; partner with Sales to align solutions with customer objectives
• Serve as trusted technical advisor in C-suite discussions on complex infrastructure modernization and transformation
• Lead complex engagements in content production, broadcast, streaming, gaming, and sports analytics
• Set technical standards for the team and create development paths for domain experts to grow into broader technical leaders
• Guide digital and AI transformation initiatives including cloud migration and content delivery optimization
• Collaborate with AWS energy teams on feature prioritization and roadmap development
• Support executive briefings and technical deep-dive sessions
• Develop whitepapers, reference architectures, and customer-facing content to share best practices
• Identify customer patterns to inform product priorities at the intersection of core infrastructure and AI/ML workloads
• Represent AWS in executive discussions, public speaking, and industry events to demonstrate customer value

Key requirements

• 15+ years of management experience overseeing 20+ technical resources
• 5+ years working with complex Energy and Utility organizations
• Experience architecting/operating solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, etc.)
• Strong track record in leading strategic technical engagements and customer-facing leadership

• Public speaking and written communication
• Executive-level stakeholder management
• Customer obsession and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Compute, Generative AI, Accelerated Compute / GPU infrastructure, HPC
• Security, Networking, Storage
• AI/ML workload optimization (training clusters, inference tuning, GPU scheduling)

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