Head of Solutions Architecture - Infrastructure Strategy

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Austin, TX seeks a Manager, Solutions Architecture to build and lead a team of Solutions Architects, guiding infrastructure design and stakeholder engagement across complex programs.

You will shape the SA strategy for OIS, prioritize high-impact work, and partner with engineering and operations to embed design judgment into our self-service tooling, driving early issue detection and cross-org collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise IT application work that includes at least 2 years of hands-on software development or DevOps engineering experience
• 2+ years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc. experience
• 8+ years of technology solutions development and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience leading and growing teams of senior technology professionals, ideally in customer facing roles

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of Solutions Architects, coaching them on infrastructure design judgment, consulting skills, and how to influence stakeholders across engineering and operations
• Define where and how your team engages, focusing their time on the programs that genuinely need human judgment, novel hardware deployments, greenfield architecture, and cross-org trade-offs
• Own the Solutions Architecture strategy for OIS, shaping how the function grows, what it prioritizes, and how it partners with solution teams from design through pilot deployment
• Champion design-phase engagement as the standard way of working, helping solution teams catch issues early instead of after architecture decisions are already locked in
• Partner with the Knowledge Hub and AI Assistant teams to build your team's expertise into self-service tools, so solution builders can check their designs against SA standards without always needing a human review
• Develop your Solutions Architects into more senior, higher-impact roles as the team and its scope grow

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps experience

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Austin, TX seeks a Manager, Solutions Architecture to build and lead a team of Solutions Architects, guiding infrastructure design and stakeholder engagement across complex programs.

You will shape the SA strategy for OIS, prioritize high-impact work, and partner with engineering and operations to embed design judgment into our self-service tooling, driving early issue detection and cross-org collaboration.