Global Financial Services, Senior Solutions Architect , AWSi GFS EMEA + APJ Solutions Architecture

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and technically deep Senior Solutions Architect to join our Global Financial Services (GFS) team. In this role, you will partner with some of the world's largest banking, insurance, and capital markets companies, alongside AWS Sales and cross-functional teams, to design highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures that solve real business problems and accelerate AWS adoption.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior customer stakeholders, helping organizations understand best practices for cloud migration, cloud-native development, and AI adoption. You will also contribute to the broader SA community through mentorship, reusable content, and thought leadership.

We are looking for someone who:
- Brings deep Financial Services domain expertise and a point of view on how cloud and AI are transforming the industry
- Thrives in a collaborative, customer-obsessed environment and enjoys working with large, global enterprise customers
- Is passionate about educating, designing, and building cloud solutions for complex and diverse challenges
- Keeps their technical skills sharp and contributes meaningfully to architectural discussions and design reviews
- Actively develops others and contributes to a culture of learning and inclusion

Key job responsibilities
- Partner with customers to architect, build, and migrate applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
- Work with sales teams to develop and execute strategies that drive AWS adoption and exceed revenue objectives
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technical leaders at Financial Services customers, influencing their long-term technology strategy
- Lead architectural discussions and design reviews, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, cost-optimized, and operationally excellent
- Develop and contribute reusable reference architectures, patterns, and best-practice content for the SA community
- Mentor and develop fellow Solutions Architects, actively contributing to team capability growth
- Act as a Financial Services thought leader through public speaking, written content, and industry engagement on cloud and AI adoption
- Conduct training sessions (one-to-few and one-to-many) to transfer knowledge to customers evaluating or already using AWS
- Provide structured feedback to AWS service and product teams based on customer needs and gaps identified in the field
- Contribute to organizational strategic planning, recruiting, and the development of team-wide initiatives

This role may require travel of up to 30% to meet with customers and attend industry events. Travel expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

A day in the life
A day in the life
Vous aidez vos clients à être compétitifs, sécurisés, et durables. Membre d’une équipe de compte, composée de profils métiers, commerciaux, consultants ou support, votre mission est d’établir un lien de confiance technologique avec vos clients. Vous travaillez à tout niveau de l’organisation, dont équipes de direction. Vous analysez les besoins et opportunités, et accompagnez vos clients sur l’utilisation optimale des technologies cloud. Selon le contexte, vous ne vous limitez pas au conseil : vous construisez aux côtés des équipes d'ingénierie du client, dans des cycles courts et cadrés, pour démontrer la proposition de valeur. Vous aidez les équipes AWS à comprendre les besoins de vos clients et à les intégrer dans leurs plans. Vous partagez votre expérience avec d’autres équipes dans le monde entier et êtes actifs dans la communauté publique AWS.

En tant qu'Architecte Solutions chez AWS, vous agissez pour la révolution de l'intelligence artificielle. Vous concevez les architectures cloud qui permettront à nos clients d'exploiter les dernières innovations de l'IA générative et agentique, et vous aiderez les entreprises françaises à tirer le meilleur parti des capacités de l'IA dans leurs activités. Cette position vous offrira l'opportunité de développer une expertise pointue, de créer des architectures et solutions de référence, et de jouer un rôle déterminant dans la transformation numérique de nos clients.

About the team
Depuis plus de 10 ans, AWS investit localement pour aider à la transformation numérique en France, à travers des infrastructures techniques et des équipes d’accompagnement client. Avec une attention constante sur l’apprentissage, l’excellence opérationnelle et le partage, nous travaillons quotidiennement avec nos clients. Des sociétés du CAC 40 aux nouveaux fleurons de l’industrie et de la French Tech, ainsi que les acteurs internationaux innovants, AWS est le moteur des entreprises accompagnant les Français à chaque instant.

About the team
About the Team

The Global Financial Services team works with a select group of the world's largest banking, insurance, and capital markets AWS customers. Our customers are leading the industry in cloud adoption through large-scale migrations and cloud-native innovation. What we achieve here shapes financial services cloud adoption worldwide.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Speak, write, and read fluently in French and English at C1 level or above

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures

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