Sr. Solutions Architect, Product Acceleration, WWPS, Product Acceleration, WWPS

About the role

Our mission is to be the trusted advisors and thought leaders who enable software companies to succeed in their missions. We earn trust by listening to our customers, prioritizing their needs, and delivering value so they can make well-informed decisions and create a better world.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the AWS Product Acceleration program. This program is centered around helping AWS customers bring their new idea to market using modern cloud-native architectures and AI-powered solutions. We equip customers with the technical and business guidance they need to be successful.

As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. This will include a range of deliverables, including architectural proposals and deep dives, POC solutions, blogging, conducting workshops, driving adoption of AI-Driven software product development processes, and lots of whiteboard problem solving, and celebrating the launch of a customer solution! You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community.

Candidates should have a broad and deep set of product architecture and design skills. We're looking for builders who have hands-on, in-the-weeds experience designing and developing software solutions that leverage AI and GenAI capabilities. You will get the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate senior engineers at both top AWS customers and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation. Strong public speaking and writing skills are required. In this role, candidates will also have the opportunity to write white papers, deliver technical webinars, and speak at events.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical design and thought leadership to customers
• Create architectural proposals and deep dives
• Develop POC solutions
• Write technical blogs and white papers
• Conduct workshops and deliver technical webinars
• Speak at events
• Drive adoption of AI-Driven software product development processes
• Lead whiteboard problem-solving sessions
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge across the AWS solution architect community
• Collaborate with and educate senior engineers at top AWS customers and AWS service teams
• Influence service team roadmaps and drive innovation

Requirements

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
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Skills & Experience

• Technical presentation experience – white board, small and large group presentations
• Technical – Cloud-hosted software development/deployment experience, cloud computing, AI/ML implementation, and GenAI solutions
• Operational – Cloud-hosted software operations, management, security, and AI governance
• Ability to travel 30%

About the Team

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.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. 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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Pay

Base salary ranges by location:

• USA, NJ, Jersey City — $169,000 – $228,600 annually
• USA, NY, New York — $169,000 – $228,600 annually
• USA, TX, Austin — $153,600 – $207,800 annually
• USA, VA, Arlington — $153,600 – $207,800 annually
• USA, VA, Herndon — $153,600 – $207,800 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.

Schedule

Ability to travel 30%.