Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS Industries, Telco

About the role

AWS is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to partner with leading Telecommunications companies on their cloud transformation journeys. This role involves working directly with Telco customers to understand their business needs, assess application portfolios, and design scalable, resilient cloud architectures on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Telco customers to assess application portfolios, understand network architecture requirements, and define AWS cloud adoption strategies aligned to their digital transformation roadmap.
• Design highly scalable, resilient cloud architectures leveraging AWS services including AI/ML, edge computing, IoT, and data analytics to address Telco-specific challenges such as 5G monetization, network function cloudification, OSS/BSS modernization, and mobile edge computing.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior technical leaders and CxOs, enabling them as cloud advocates within their organizations.
• Drive revenue growth by formulating and executing sales strategies with AWS Sales teams, mobilizing internal resources and partners to ensure successful migrations and net-new builds on AWS.
• Deliver hands-on enablement through workshops, proof-of-concepts, and architectural deep-dives that demonstrate AWS value for resiliency, security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Act as a voice-of-customer liaison to AWS service teams, synthesizing field observations to influence the product roadmap for Telco-relevant services.
• Collaborate across AWS to develop reusable solutions, reference architectures, and mechanisms for repeatable Telco customer outcomes.
• Author and share best-practice knowledge through whitepapers, code samples, blog posts, and public speaking at industry events.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

Skills

• Broad technical competence across infrastructure, networking, security, and application development
• Deep expertise in telecommunications architectures
• Ability to connect technology outcomes to measurable business value
• Effective communication skills with stakeholders ranging from network engineers to CTOs

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Schedule

Work/Life Balance: Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.