Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS Global Defence Partners

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domain areas such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics
• 3+ years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting for applications and infrastructure
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive-level stakeholders or clients
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience with AI/ML, HPC, digital engineering, advanced manufacturing, or data engineering workloads on AWS
• Familiarity with defence compliance frameworks
• We require the selected candidate to be a UK national and to hold, or be able to attain, UK Security Clearance

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical strategy and architecture for defence-sector partners undergoing cloud adoption, modernization, and digital transformation
• Own end-to-end solution architecture spanning AI/ML, HPC, digital engineering, advanced manufacturing systems, and data platforms on AWS
• Operate as a trusted advisor at the executive level, translating business objectives into AWS-native architectures with clear modernization roadmaps
• Bring defence industry expertise to engagements, understanding mission-critical workflows, compliance frameworks, and the operational constraints unique to A&D partners
• Provide thought leadership and capture best-practice knowledge within the AWS Solutions Architect community
• Drive architectural decisions across multiple concurrent partner engagements, ensuring AWS is positioned as the strategic platform of choice

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Security
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Web

More:

We are AWS, the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continue to innovate, helping customers from startups to Global 500 companies power their businesses. In this Senior Solutions Architect role within our AWS WWPS Partner team, you will help shape and deliver a strategy to expand AWS services across AI/ML, high-performance computing, advanced analytics, digital engineering, and manufacturing systems modernization with our ecosystem of defence-sector systems integrators, consulting firms, and technology partners. We value diverse experiences, curiosity, connection, mentorship, career growth, and work/life balance, and we encourage candidates to apply even if their background is nontraditional. This position may require up to 25% travel.

last updated 34 week of 2026