HPC Specialist Architect - Energy Industry

London, United Kingdom
Last month
Job Type
Permanent
Posted
2 Apr 2026 (Last month)
AWS is looking for a HPC Specialist Architect for the Energy & Utilities Business Unit, who will be a subject matter expert helping customers design solutions that leverage our HPC services. You will work closely with customers in various geographies to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for HPC. You will interact with other Solutions Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage HPC services on AWS. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader AWS architect population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS solutions into customer architectures. You drive effective feedback gathering from customers, and you distill and translate that feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams to review. You sponsor the creation of new products and features from these requirements, working closely with product and engineering teams to minimize requirements drift from your customer’s needs.

Key job responsibilities
- Customer Advisor- You will interact closely with our customers Implement and deploy state of the art HPC solutions. You will build prototypes, PoCs, and explore new solutions.
- Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS HPC services and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, white-papers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
- Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate HPC solutions into customer architectures.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS product teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.
- Generally, travel up to 25% could be included and will be discussed at the interview stage.

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