WW Tech Lead, Senior Solutions Architect Specializations, Partner Core Tech
About the role
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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.
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
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.
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.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the worldwide technical strategy for AWS Specializations, driving competency launches, automation, and continuous program improvement across a portfolio that directly enables partner business growth
- Design automation solutions (including AI/agent-based validation) to accelerate application processing
- Build and operate cross-functional mechanisms across multiple programs that improve partner experience, unblock validation backlogs, and strengthen program integrity — evolving validation criteria to adopt AWS-wide approaches for measuring partner contributions and customer impact while maintaining a high quality bar
- Lead end-to-end program launches — from requirements definition through enablement, go-to-market, and post-launch success measurement — orchestrating multi-stakeholder launches at flagship events
- Navigate program portfolio evolution, including sunsetting legacy specializations and standing up new categories aligned to emerging technology domains
- Serve as the technical liaison for integrating Specializations with broader AWS go-to-market and partner programs — including partner recommendation engines, AWS Marketplace, and partner program qualification frameworks — ensuring Specialization designations are leveraged as a key criterion for partner discovery, customer-facing recommendations, and program eligibility at scale
- Drive fraud detection and compliance enforcement mechanisms that protect program credibility — ensuring the Specialization badge remains an earned mark of quality
- Collaborate with AWS business stakeholders and partners to shape the future direction of specializations and competency programs, connecting technical strategy to customer outcomes
- Publish thought leadership (blogs, announcements, technical content) communicating program changes, new launches, and best practices to the partner community
- Travel up to 25% to engage with strategic partners, deliver in-person enablement, and represent the program at AWS events
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
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
Pay
- USA, CA, San Francisco — $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York — $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Austin — $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Dallas — $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington — $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle — $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)