Presales Solutions Architect (Cloud, AI & Data – Financial Services clients)

Company: Diagonal recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

We’re partnering with a fast-growing (500+ employees) AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that’s investing heavily in its UK growth – with the recent setup of a London client-facing hub to grow Financial Services as the primary vertical.

A highly visible role with significant influence across the business. You’ll become the CEO & Founder’s technical counterpart – while the Founder drives the commercial strategy and executive relationships, you’ll own the technical narrative, discovery, design and the overall solution.

This is a genuine opportunity to help build and scale the UK practice, not simply support individual sales opportunities.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead technical discovery workshops with enterprise customers.
  • Design end-to-end cloud, AI and data solutions aligned to business objectives.
  • Build and demonstrate PoCs that help customers buy with confidence.
  • Own the technical solution across proposals, RFPs and Statements of Work.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Delivery and AWS to shape & win strategic engagements.
  • Develop trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Data and AI leaders across the UK.
  • Represent the business at AWS events, customer workshops and industry conferences.
  • Help shape new service offerings, reusable accelerators and go-to-market strategy as the UK practice continues to grow.

Technical Requirements

You’ll ideally bring experience across several of the following:

  • AWS cloud architecture (AWS certifications highly desirable)
  • Amazon Bedrock and Generative AI
  • Modern Data Platforms including Databricks, Snowflake and Redshift
  • RAG, LLMs and Agentic AI architectures
  • Application Modernisation & Cloud Migration
  • Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes
  • Data Platforms, Lakehouse architectures and Data Governance
  • Financial Services technology environments (Banking, Insurance or Capital Markets advantageous)
  • Experience securing AWS funding programmes (MAP, POC funding etc.) would be beneficial

About You

  • 8+ years’ experience in Solutions Architecture, Technical Consulting or Pre-Sales.
  • Proven success supporting or winning cloud, AI or data consulting engagements.
  • Comfortable engaging senior technical and business stakeholders.
  • Commercially minded with experience contributing to proposals, SOWs and solution pricing.
  • Hands-on enough to build credible demonstrations while remaining focused on outcomes.
  • Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where you’ll work directly with senior leadership and have genuine influence over the business.

Please note: This role is aimed at candidates from technology & AI services or consulting not a traditional software vendor pre-sales opportunity.

Posted: June 27th, 2026