Senior AI Solutions Architect - GenAI/ML Cloud Architect

Amazon Inc.; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services New Zealand Limited seeks a hands-on Sr AI Solution Architect to lead GenAI/ML initiatives, craft scalable architectures, and guide customers through cloud-based transformations. You will produce technical content and enablement, helping customers accelerate AI adoption with secure, production-ready designs.

You will collaborate with the sales and engineering teams to shape roadmaps and evangelize best practices across GenAI workloads on AWS, delivering high-impact technical

Qualifications

• 7+ years design/implementation in applications and infrastructures.
• 5+ years in technology domains (cloud, systems, security, data & analytics).
• Ability to influence technical decisions and communicate across audiences.
• Hands-on experience with AWS ecosystems (Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker) for AI environments.
• Experience deploying AI solutions including LLMs, RAG, vector stores, and MLOps.
• 6+ years designing/implementing production AI systems.
• 5+ years managing technical, customer-facing resources.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage technical relationships with customers, guiding GenAI/ML workloads.
• Advise on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Represent customer voice to influence AWS GenAI/ML roadmap and features.
• Define cloud-native GenAI/ML patterns for diverse use cases.
• Create and share best practices, white papers, and workshops for customers and partners.
• Lead hands-on deep dives and workshops, contributing assets for broader engineering teams.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Solution architecture

Customer facing

MLOps

Education

Cloud Certification (e.g. Solutions Architect)

Master's or PhD in CS/ML/Math

Tools

Bedrock

SageMaker

AgentCore

Job description

Amazon Web Services New Zealand Limited seeks a hands-on Sr AI Solution Architect to lead GenAI/ML initiatives, craft scalable architectures, and guide customers through cloud-based transformations. You will produce technical content and enablement, helping customers accelerate AI adoption with secure, production-ready designs.

You will collaborate with the sales and engineering teams to shape roadmaps and evangelize best practices across GenAI workloads on AWS, delivering high-impact technical