Support Domain Architect (SDA), AWS Enterprise Support, Strategic Industries
About the role
AWS Enterprise Support is looking for a Support Domain Architect (SDA) to join our Strategic Industries Premium Support Business Development team. You will operate at the intersection of deep technical consulting, pre-sales architecture, and plan for delivery excellence — building customer value propositions for Unified Operations (UOps), generating pipeline through your customer relationships and Technical Field Community engagement, and serving as a domain CTO ensuring delivery excellence across your specialty.
- Perform technical consulting with customers (architecture design, modernization, migration, optimization), building trust and identifying support solution opportunities
- Partner with Business Development Managers to build pipeline, position deals, and provide technical expertise that unblocks customer conversations
- Serve as a domain CTO — calibrating Domain Specialist Engineers, setting quality standards for delivery artifacts, and ensuring customers realize value from the solutions we sell
- Contribute to industry and technology solution development, ideating and shipping new support offerings that address patterns you observe across customer engagements
Responsibilities
- Leverage customer consulting relationships and Technical Field Community (TFC) engagement to identify UOps pipeline opportunities and share insights with BDMs
- Build data-driven customer value propositions using the Strategic Value Proposition Framework, quantifying UOps impact from support case data and workload analysis
- Provide on-demand technical expertise to advance deals — addressing customer objections, positioning solutions, and presenting to VP/CTO-level executives
- Define proof-of-value success criteria and KPIs for customer engagements
- Serve as domain CTO — calibrating Domain Specialist Engineers, setting quality standards for CWR and CountDown Premium artifacts, and ensuring delivery consistency
- Ideate and ship industry-specific and technology-specific support solutions integrating UOps with AWS products (IDR, CDP, AMS, DevOps Agent, Security Agent)
- Build AI-powered tools and frameworks that scale BD effectiveness across the organization
- Maintain deep technical expertise in your domain (Security, Networking, Containers, Big Data/AI-ML, or SAP) through hands-on consulting: architecture design, migration, modernization, and optimization
- Contribute to Well-Architected Framework lenses, customer events, blog posts, and enablement programs
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development experience
- 5+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience
- Experience in external enterprise customer-facing role as a technical lead, with strong oral and written communication skills, presenting to both large and small audiences
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
- Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: software design or development, content distribution/CDN, scripting/automation, database architecture, IP networking, IT security, BigData/Hadoop/Spark, operations management, service oriented architecture
- Knowledge of cloud-based architecture, cloud services and experience in customer-facing roles
Pay
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
- USA, GA, Atlanta: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, 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.