Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts
About the role
Join the AWS Solutions Architecture team where your cloud solutions will help architect the future of global travel. In this role, you’ll design highly scalable, secure AWS systems that handle millions of bookings, reviews, and real-time interactions globally. You’ll bridge business and technology, translating market needs into future-ready architectures that drive growth and user trust. We value strategic thinkers who thrive in ambiguity, communicate powerfully across teams, and love mentoring others.
Key job responsibilities
- Own complex solution end-to-end: Lead the design, validation, and full lifecycle implementation of mission-critical customer solutions. Merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative architectures that solve high-impact problems.
- Lead technical strategy & advocacy: Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases. Challenge assumptions, validate architectures, and ensure solutions align with both technical excellence and business outcomes.
- Build scalable knowledge assets: Create reusable, adoption-ready technical content—including sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations—that empowers teams to implement best practices efficiently and consistently.
- Forge consensus across stakeholders: Harmonize diverse perspectives by articulating clear technical and strategic visions. Resolve conflicts, align cross-functional teams, and drive unified execution of complex initiatives.
- Accelerate adoption through reuse: Identify opportunities to modularize solutions and leverage existing assets, reducing time-to-market and delivering greater value to the broader customer community.
A day in the life
Your day begins with internal stakeholder meetings to align on customer priorities before joining customer calls to discuss technical architecture and solution options. You'll spend time experimenting with new services to solve specific customer challenges, then document your findings. Afternoons might include solutioning sessions where you craft architectures that address complex media workloads, followed by building proof-of-concepts to demonstrate feasibility. You'll close your day evangelizing best practices to both internal teams and customers.
About the team
Our team partners with premier travel and hospitality customers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the cloud. We help these innovative companies transform their businesses and deliver exceptional content experiences to millions of users worldwide. The scale at which our customers operate presents unique technical challenges that require creative solutions. Join us to be part of a team that values technical excellence, customer obsession, and innovation. You'll work alongside passionate technologists who are excited about solving complex problems and helping customers achieve remarkable outcomes through AWS technologies.
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.
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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Preferred qualifications
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
Pay
Base salary range: USA, CA, San Francisco - $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually. 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave