Senior Solutions Architect - £90,000 - REMOTE
About the company:
The company is a fast-growing Advanced Level AWS Consulting Partner in the rapidly changing cloud and technology services sector. Our teams of AWS certified people work with our customers to help them deliver their strategic objectives by designing, building, migrating and supporting their cloud technology projects.
Due to continued growth, they have an immediate vacancy for a Senior Solutions Architect to join the team. This role can be fully remote based in the UK.
About the role:
As a Senior Solutions Architect at the company, you will design, scope, estimate, and oversee multiple professional services projects. You'll manage tasks, prioritize workloads, and collaborate with leadership, project managers, and engineers to ensure high-quality, on-time, and on-budget project delivery.
Your role involves diverse projects in the Public Sector, Education, and private sector, including creating automated exam environments, virtual classrooms, virtualizing museum collections, and collecting climate data.
Responsibilities:
* Lead on customer scoping and design calls to gather requirements, build a project scope and time to deliver an estimate for the project.
* Formulate a customer's problem into an architectural solution which will deliver value to the customer.
* Building positive customer relationships.
* Working closely with the project team to deliver the project to a high standard, to the project scope within the project time and budget constraints.
* Either leading the project delivery by completing the work yourself or oversee our Cloud Engineers to deliver professional services projects.
* Working closely with the delivery team to provide guidance, knowledge and grow their skillset to meet project deadlines.
* Collaborate with the Head of Technical Operations to drive improvements in processes, procedures and automation to speed up project delivery.
* Act as the senior point of escalation for technical outages/issues.
* Involvement in maintaining our high level standard of our NPS Score, AWS relationship and driving business growth with the delivery of Service Delivery Programs.
* Attendance at client meetings and company events.
* Participation in a 24/7 on-call escalation rota.
Experience:
* Over 5 years of experience in designing and building solutions on AWS.
* More than 3 years of experience in gathering project scope, requirements, and conducting design sessions with customers, both virtually and face-to-face.
* Proficient in estimating delivery timelines based on the skill sets of team members.
* Possess an AWS Solution Architect Professional certification.
* Skilled in writing precise and detailed Statements of Work, including high-level architectural designs.
* Over 4 years of experience with core AWS services, such as Load Balancing, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, and CloudWatch.
* More than 5 years of experience in modernizing legacy architectures through containerization and microservices.
* Extensive experience, over 5 years, in designing and building AWS serverless solutions, including API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
* Over 5 years of experience with best practices for deployment mechanisms, including deploying releases across multiple environments, with a preference for AWS native tooling, though other technologies are also accepted.
* Experienced in migrating customers from on-premise environments to the cloud.
Benefits:
* 34 Days Annual Leave
* Company Pension
* Private Healthcare plan
* Ample opportunity to develop your career within the company as you will be an essential part of a fast-growing company
* Ability to work from home
* Family Friendly working environment
* Professional development and support
* Everyone has a voice and makes a direct and valued contribution to building the best products possible
Interested in the role? Please apply directly to this advert, you can also schedule a call with me by emailing your CV to h.shemmings@jeffersonfrank.com, calling me on 0191 223 5303 or reach out on LinkedIn "Harry Shemmings".
