Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS Industries, Telco

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to partner with the world's leading Telecommunications companies on their most ambitious cloud transformation journeys.

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.

Qualifications

• 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