Sr Solutions Architect, Media & Entertainment, AGS UKI

Are you passionate about helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions in the media, entertainment, and sports industries? Join our team as a Senior Solutions Architect where you'll provide technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working within a sales and business development team.

The media, entertainment, and sports industries are at the forefront of digital disruption, with cloud, data, and AI reshaping content creation, distribution, and audience engagement. From AI-powered content recommendations to real-time sports analytics and immersive fan experiences, organizations need trusted advisors who understand both the technological possibilities and industry-specific challenges.

In this role, you'll help media, entertainment, and sports customers navigate their transformation journey, combining deep industry knowledge with expertise in data platforms and AI/ML technologies. You'll work with broadcasters, streaming platforms, game developers, sports leagues, and content creators to design and implement solutions that drive audience engagement and operational efficiency.

As a trusted advisor to our customers, you'll leverage your technical breadth and communication skills to bridge the gap between business objectives and technical solutions. You'll design end-to-end solutions, develop deep expertise in AWS technologies, and champion security best practices in cloud environments. This opportunity allows you to work with diverse media and entertainment organizations, solving unique challenges and driving innovation through cloud adoption.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions that are secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant to address complex customer business problems across media, entertainment, and sports industries.

- Guide organizations in building scalable data platforms that can handle massive volumes of content and user data.

- Help customers implement high-value AI use cases such as content recommendations, audience segmentation, automated content tagging, and predictive analytics for sports.

- Design architectures that support real-time streaming, content delivery, and interactive experiences at global scale.

- Advise on industry-specific considerations for content rights management, data privacy, and ethical AI use in content creation and curation.

- Provide technical leadership and serve as a trusted advisor to customers, effectively communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.

- Develop deep expertise in AWS technologies and how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform, becoming a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications.

- Drive effective feedback gathering from customers and translate that feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product teams.

- Lead technical engagements for specific implementation projects, create reusable technical content, and share best practices within the AWS Solutions Architect community.

A day in the life
Your day begins reviewing technical implementation plans for media and entertainment customers. You'll own technical engagements around specific projects, providing best practices on content delivery architectures, streaming solutions, and AI-powered content intelligence platforms. A significant part of your role involves building rapid prototypes—leveraging AI-powered development tools to quickly demonstrate solutions like semantic search across media archives or automated content tagging pipelines. These prototypes help customers visualize how AWS can transform their workflows. You'll collaborate with sales teams, lead customer meetings on cloud architecture designs, and work closely with content creators and sports organizations to translate their challenges into scalable AWS solutions.

About the team
The UK Media & Entertainment Solution Architect Team works with customers across broadcasting, streaming platforms, game development, sports leagues, and content production. We focus on delivering innovative cloud solutions that address unique industry challenges while driving business transformation in content creation, distribution, and audience engagement.

Our team combines technical expertise with deep industry knowledge to help customers leverage the full potential of AWS services for media workloads, data platforms, and AI/ML applications. We're passionate about solving complex technical problems in areas like real-time streaming, content intelligence, and immersive experiences, building long-term relationships with our customers and ensuring they achieve their business objectives through effective cloud adoption.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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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.