Job Title: AWS Solution Architect

* SC Eligibility/Unable to accept applicants needing sponsorship.

About The Job Your Considering

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 in using the latest frameworks, reference architectures and technologies using AWS, Azure and GCP and continue to grow and are looking for talented individuals who want to join our high-performing team, if you would like to develop your career as part of a team of highly skilled professionals who are passionate about increasing the value of the data and analytics in organisations you have come to the right place.

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

• 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 and understands the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the solution

• Owns Solution Development as a 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 in designing architecture for data-focused Microsoft Azure projects

Your Skills and Experience

• 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

Our projects are varied, sometimes you may be asked to help define a client's data visualisation transformation roadmap, other times you may be rolling your sleeves up and creating an innovative data platform, for a complex business problem or even assisting in responding to client bid responses.

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.