Sr. Solutions Architect, SMB

About the role

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world-class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, architects, and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you will work directly with customers to help them gain a competitive edge using AWS. You will influence customers' architectural choices across broad use cases involving security, compute, storage, networking, as well as advanced scenarios involving serverless, analytics, and AI/ML. You will provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership, capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community, and collaborate with some of the brightest technical minds in the industry.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.
• Work cross-organizationally to facilitate widespread use and adoption of the AWS platform.
• Develop deep expertise in AWS technologies and broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.
• Represent AWS within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation.
• Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed, 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.

AWS fosters an inclusive team culture, promoting curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups empower inclusion, and our inclusion events strengthen collaboration. We continually innovate through bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, and Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, VA, Arlington - $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually.