Are you self-motivated and solution-oriented? Can you excel in a fast-paced and dynamic environment? Are you excited about taking on new challenges, making impactful changes and becoming exposed to new clients, business issues, technologies and people?

EMEA Consulting is a global business and technology management consultancy organization dedicated to financial and advanced IT solutions. From engineering to application development, knowledge management and business process management, we help our clients to find the right problems and solve them effectively. Our team innovators, across the globe, is differentiated by the imagination, knowledge and experience, across industries and technologies that we bring to every project we undertake. Our collaborative and efficient approach helps our clients increase revenue, manage risk, regulatory change, reduce costs and enhance control.

We are seeking talented individuals who are quick on their feet and who can offer a unique perspective to the EMEA Consulting team and to our clients. Here at EMEA Consulting, we are defined by innovative development and we provide you with the opportunity to help solve significant business issues and transform operations for some of the world’s largest organizations during a period of sweeping industry change.

The Consultant Enablement Program (CEP) has been set up to launch our Consultant's careers on a trajectory for continued success. The ideology behind this Program is based on the desire to empower consultants to become the future leaders of EMEA Consulting and is focused on developing the best management consultants in the industry. The Program is designed to allow consultants the flexibility to engage on projects across all of EMEA Consulting’s offerings within financial services while providing tailored training, networking and engagement opportunities to foster a collaborative work environment.

EMEA Consulting is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate the use of our growing platform within the Strategic Accounts segment of our business. This is an excellent opportunity to join EMEA Consulting’s world-class technical team, work with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape the strategy and enable the broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services by directly working with our key customers. Your responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement and ultimate successful production deployment of specific projects defining implementation architectures, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as a broad know-how about how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform and being a subject matter expert in selected solution areas (e.g. AI/ML, Security, Big Data).

As a Solutions Architect within the Strategic segment, you will provide thought leadership and exceptional technical design capabilities to your customers. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practices knowledge within the AWS solution architect community as well as with our customers. You will also gain the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest technical minds in the industry across the breadth of enterprise computing architecture.

You will be part of a culture of innovation where you’ll use AWS services to help our customers rapidly get their products and services to market through continuous delivery of modern solutions that are highly scalable, resilient and elastic. You will have the opportunity to design large-scale web and mobile applications using micro-services based architectures to deliver services globally and enable data-driven decision making through big data / artificial intelligence-powered analytics.

Professional Qualifications:

• 5+ years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications

• Experience in a customer-facing, sales-aligned role such as consultant, solutions engineer or solutions architect

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking

• Technical degree required – Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Personal Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or related discipline

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals

• Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort in communicating effectively with both large and small audiences to an executive, IT management and/or technical audience

• Strong written communication skills