AWS Solution Architect - Insight & Data Services - Permanent

Salary guideline: £80,000 - £110,000 pa (DOE) + 10% Bonus, Pension up to 6% contributory, Health Insurance, Life Assurance etc.

Base Location: London with UK Wide Travel (Hybrid model - Onsite/ Remote)

The Client:

The Cloud Data Platforms team is part of the Insights and Data Global Practice and has seen strong growth and continued success across a variety of projects and sectors. Cloud Data Platforms is the home of the Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, Solutions Architects and Business Analysts who are focused on driving our customers digital and data transformation journey using the modern cloud platforms. We specialise on using the latest frameworks, reference architectures and technologies using AWS, Azure and GCP

The Role:

We are looking for strong AWS Solution Architects who are passionate and focused on data solutions and AWS technology and who ideally have skills in many of the following areas:

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Partners with other solution architects to assess solution alignment to the overall architectural blueprint - and drive proposal writing, solution direction, pricing and costing
• Helps define the performance goals and metrics for the proposed solution
• Understands the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the solution
• Owns Solution Development as liaison between Sales and Delivery teams. Serve as technical liaison between Sales team, Clients, Delivery & support teams up to and including Contract negotiations
• Cooperate with sales team to formulate / execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives
• Have experience of designing architecture for data focused Microsoft Azure projects
• Serves as AWS Cloud Solution Architect responsible for design of the solution with knowledge of HA and DR topics, Network, Security, Service Management etc
• Defines an AWS Cloud architecture - for our data focused solutions to meet our customers data and digital transformation requirements
• Understands how to integrate AWS solutions into an overall solution framework
• Ability to explain complex concepts to a non-technical audience

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of automation tooling such as Azure DevOps to facilitate CI/CD approaches to IaC
• Knowledge of other Cloud Platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Relevant certifications
• Knowledge of IaaS implementation, Availability sets, AWS Networking concepts, DNS, Load Balancing, HA, DR
• Strong skills in areas such as Docker, Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS to name a few