Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture

About the role

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software, technology sales or consulting. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical for a Principal Solutions Architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Key job responsibilities

• Strategic Technical Leadership & Executive Advisory
• Own program-level technical strategy for systemically important financial institutions' AWS adoption across multiple lines of business, including capital markets, wealth management, and institutional securities
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to senior technology leadership and C-suite executives, leading technical and business strategy discussions that influence their technology vision
• Architect solutions to significantly complex challenges involving large-scale distributed systems, real-time trading platforms, risk management systems, and regulatory compliance frameworks
• Create exemplary reference architectures that become patterns for other global financial institutions
• Drive alignment across customer's technology, business, risk, and compliance organizations while influencing long-term technology roadmap and architectural standards
• Thought Leadership & Industry Impact
• Recognized as a technical thought leader in financial services cloud architecture, leading creation of whitepapers, reference architectures, and industry best practices
• Speak at premier industry events with significant educational impact
• Mentor and develop other Solutions Architects, providing technical assessments for Principal SA promotions
• Create mechanisms, frameworks, and best practices that enable organizational scale
• Technical Excellence & Innovation
• Design large-scale, multi-region architectures addressing complex requirements for performance, security, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Lead technical due diligence for mission-critical workload migrations (trading systems, risk engines, core banking platforms)
• Ensure solutions meet stringent regulatory requirements (SEC, FINRA, OCC, Fed) and industry standards
• Drive adoption of advanced AWS capabilities including AI/ML, GenAI, real-time analytics, and event-driven architectures
• Working backwards from your customers, identify gaps in AWS products and services, and work with relevant product teams to address them

About the team

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys, speaking the language of our industry customers and focusing on business outcomes and industry use cases.

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)