Solutions Architect - NPO, Financial Investments Account Team

About the role

The role involves partnering with a single strategic customer in the AWS U.S. Nonprofits NFICU sub-vertical, serving as the dedicated AWS technical advisor of record, and leading architectural altitude across all of the customer's active AWS engagements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a Senior Account Executive and the broader account team to lead the account's AWS technical strategy across an integrated multi-pillar engagement: GenAI Full-Stack, Cloud Migration, Professional Services, and Amazon Connect.
• Lead architectural altitude across all of the customer's active AWS engagements.
• Apply the AWS GenAI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) + AI Development Life-Cycle (AIDLC) accelerator mechanism to move the customer's GenAI proof-of-concept work into production-launched outcomes.
• Partner deeply with AWS Professional Services on the customer's active ProServe engagements — providing pre-SOW architectural input, mid-engagement technical guidance, and post-engagement production-readiness review.
• Translate the customer's mission, regulatory environment, and operating model into AWS architectural decisions.
• Operate the Sales-SA partnership cadence with the account sales team — weekly account-team standups, monthly business reviews, quarterly strategic-planning cycles, and ad-hoc executive-engagement support.
• Drive opportunity-pipeline integrity on the customer's active engagements.
• Avoid administrative overhead so technical-advisor hours go to customer outcomes.
• Contribute to the AWS NPO Technical Field Community (TFC) — participate in the bi-weekly Kiro demo-build program and the GenAI Accelerator Initiative.
• Lift reusable patterns into TFC content that benefits the broader NPO SA bench.
• Travel approximately 25-35% — primarily to the customer's headquarters for in-person executive briefings, customer workshops, on-site architecture reviews, and joint working sessions, plus AWS / nonprofit industry events such as AWS Imagine for Nonprofits.

Requirements

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Skills

• Deep AWS technical breadth
• Sensibility to operate inside a mission-driven financial-services organization
• Technical advisor patience
• Customer advisor instincts

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

Base salary range: $131,300.00 - $177,600.00 USD annually

Schedule

Approximately 25-35% travel