About this role
Description
AWS Global Sales helps customers use the AWS Cloud to solve business and technical challenges. The Enterprise Solutions Architecture team supports customers in Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, Transportation, and Logistics. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will own technical relationships, translate customer priorities into cloud architectures, and coordinate AWS teams and partners to accelerate implementation.
You will advise developers, architects, engineering leaders, and executives through workshops, design reviews, proofs of concept, and implementation planning. This role requires technical depth, clear communication, and recommendations grounded in each customer's goals. Travel is expected to be 15 to 20%.
Key job responsibilities
- Own technical relationships with enterprise customers and advocate for their business and technical priorities.
- Lead architecture and design discussions for secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions.
- Translate customer goals into technical roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Coordinate account teams, service specialists, partners, and product teams to remove adoption barriers.
- Deliver workshops, demonstrations, design reviews, and proofs of concept.
- Build relationships with developers, architects, engineering leaders, and executives.
- Capture and share reusable guidance with the AWS Solutions Architecture community.
- Drive measurable customer outcomes through technical enablement and AWS adoption.
A day in the life
Each week, you will meet with enterprise customers to understand goals, review architectures, and shape technical roadmaps. You will work with account teams, service specialists, partners, and product teams to validate designs and remove adoption barriers. You will lead workshops, build demonstrations and proofs of concept, document decisions, and share reusable guidance with the Solutions Architecture community. Customer meetings and team events require travel.
About the team
The AWS Enterprise Solutions Architecture team supports Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, Transportation, and Logistics customers. The team combines industry context with technical depth across infrastructure, applications, data, security, and generative AI. Solutions Architects work with account teams, specialists, partners, and service teams to turn customer priorities into executable architectures. The team invests in knowledge sharing, mentorship, and continuous learning.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually