Location
Amsterdam, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, or London.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Would you like to help the largest Private Equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies leverage new technologies to improve their operations? As a Private Equity Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will work directly with PE firms, their portfolio companies, and consulting partners to help them adopt new technologies and build innovative cloud solutions. You will engage with organisations at all stages of cloud adoption, providing thought leadership that links technology to tangible business outcomes. Your role will involve educating PE firms and their portfolio companies about the art of the possible, defining and developing cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have opportunities to present publicly at AWS conferences and industry events.

You will build and maintain trusted relationships with technical leaders, C-level executives, and influencers across the PE segment. Your technical background will enable you to drive customer engagement with business, finance, or IT executives at the highest levels. You will work with complex IT environments including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security, and operations. While practical knowledge of AWS is desired, a balanced technical foundation and eagerness to learn are essential.

At Amazon, you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of your customers. You will continuously develop your technical skills and contribute to architecture discussions that help customers succeed. AWS values diversity and inclusion and encourages employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

Key Responsibilities
- Design AWS-based technical solutions tailored to specific business challenges and initiatives within the Private Equity segment, including integrations with third-party solutions.
- Own the technical relationship with PE firms and portfolio company C-suite executives, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Serve as a key technical member of the AWS PE team to ensure customer success in architecting, building, migrating, or optimizing applications and services on AWS.
- Build rapport with executives at PE firms and portfolio companies leveraging your understanding of enterprise architecture, mergers and acquisitions, migration, and cost optimization.
- Establish technical credibility to lead discussions with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, and senior developers.
- Provide technical and architectural guidance, including cost optimization strategies aligned with budget constraints.
- Evangelize AWS technologies within the Private Equity ecosystem.
- Influence AWS product roadmap based on customer feedback.
- Create and share best practices, technical content, and reference architectures.
- Contribute to team growth by hiring, coaching, and mentoring.
- Develop deep expertise in technical domains relevant to customer outcomes.

Experience
- Leading complex, large-scale IT, technical, or engineering programs.
- Working with Private Equity firms, Venture Capital funds, Hedge Funds, or Investment Banking, specifically in technology strategy or IT implementations related to Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Direct customer engagement experience in technical pre-sales, post-sales, consulting, or customer support roles.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed.

About You
- Strong relationship-building skills with C-suite level executives.
- Ability to operate as a trusted technical advisor.
- Strategic thinker with a long-term perspective on business needs.
- Passionate about learning and developing new technical skills.
- Comfortable working in diverse and inclusive teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of addressing large and diverse audiences.

Qualifications
- Experience architecting or operating solutions on any cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Knowledge in data science, machine learning, or data mining is a plus.
- Understanding of distributed and enterprise applications.
- Background in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data, and analytics is advantageous.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product roadmaps and create technical content.
- AWS platform knowledge is desirable but not mandatory.