Sr Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

About the role

Join the AWS Solutions Architecture team that partners with one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving tens of millions of customers and processing trillions of dollars in transactions annually. In this role, you'll design highly resilient, secure AWS architectures that power core banking modernization, real-time payments infrastructure, and mission-critical financial workloads at global scale. You'll work at the intersection of engineering and financial services, translating complex regulatory and business challenges into elegant cloud solutions that span high-availability transaction processing, data-intensive risk and fraud detection systems, and generative AI experiences that transform how customers manage their financial lives.

We're looking for strategic thinkers who excel in ambiguity, communicate with clarity across technical and business stakeholders, and are energized by mentoring others.

Why join?

Shape how millions of people interact with their financial institution, collaborate on some of the most sophisticated and compliance-driven cloud architectures at scale, and innovate in a culture that values curiosity, ownership, and diverse perspectives.

Key job responsibilities

• Own Complex Solutions End-to-End — Lead the design, validation, and delivery of mission-critical architectures that merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to solve high-impact problems.
• Lead Technical Strategy & Advocacy — Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases to align solutions with both technical excellence and business outcomes.
• Prove Value Through Hands-On Innovation — Build proof-of-concept architectures and technical demonstrations that de-risk decisions and shorten the path from evaluation to production.
• Build Reusable Technical Content — Create scalable assets — sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations — that empower teams to implement best practices consistently.
• Forge Consensus Across Stakeholders — Articulate clear technical and strategic visions, resolve conflicts, and drive unified execution across cross-functional teams.
• Champion Customer Needs Back to AWS — Serve as the voice of your customer inside AWS, surfacing critical gaps and influencing service team roadmaps to benefit the broader financial services industry.
• Multiply Impact Through Reuse — Modularize solutions and leverage existing assets to reduce time-to-value and amplify impact across the customer community.

About the team

Diverse experiences are valued. 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.

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
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
• Experience within financial services and payment institutions

Pay

Base salary range: $153,600.00 – $207,800.00 USD annually (Arlington, VA, USA). Final compensation includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).