Principal, Solutions Architect - Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports , Solutions Architecture - AWSI-MEGS Direct Accounts

About the role

We're looking for a Principal, Solutions Architect to serve as the strategic technical leader across the AWS Industries (AWSI) -Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports (MEGS) vertical. This role is chartered to drive long-term strategic thought leadership, accelerate high-value opportunity pursuits, and position AWS as a transformational partner across a portfolio of strategic customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the tech lead across multiple MEGS customers, with ability to dive deep on strategic customer engagements
• Absent with the latest innovation across Data and AI at AWS, and identifying emerging solution and deployment patterns
• Advise senior technology leaders and executives on cloud strategy and architecture
• Design scalable, reliable architectures for media, gaming, streaming, and sports workloads
• Lead technical strategy across themes like content creation, media supply chain, live broadcast, gaming infrastructure, and sports technology
• Identify trends and common challenges across MEGS customers
• Evaluate new technologies and design patterns, and translate findings into actionable guidance for account teams
• Build reusable frameworks and solution blueprints that help teams move faster
• Create whitepapers, reference architectures, and best practices in collaboration with AWS Technical Field Communities
• Present at industry events (AWS 1P and 3P)
• Mentor Solutions Architects and help raise the technical bar across the organization
• Innovation & Product Influence
• Work backwards from customer needs to identify product gaps and influence AWS roadmaps
• Help customers re-imagine and transform existing systems leveraging innovations across data patterns and AI
• Support executive briefings and deep-dive sessions

Qualifications

• 10+ 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 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
• 5+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role
• Experience designing large-scale cloud solutions
• 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
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Familiarity with media, entertainment, gaming, or sports industry workloads
• Domain expertise in one or more areas: media supply chain, streaming, gaming, live broadcast, or sports analytics
• Track record of thought leadership (publications, conference talks)
• Experience mentoring technical talent