Manager, Solutions Architecture - Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs / Equity

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in Austin, TX seeks a Manager, Solutions Architecture for Operations Infrastructure Services to build and lead a new SA team that partners with program owners on complex infrastructure, greenfield designs, and cross-org trade-offs. You will coach architects, shape engagement models, and integrate expertise into self-service checks.

You will drive design reviews, develop senior SA talent, and expand the function's impact across hardware deployments and cloud platforms, influencing

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, rather than work that can be self-served.
• 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

Enterprise IT experience

DevOps experience

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Amazon in Austin, TX seeks a Manager, Solutions Architecture for Operations Infrastructure Services to build and lead a new SA team that partners with program owners on complex infrastructure, greenfield designs, and cross-org trade-offs. You will coach architects, shape engagement models, and integrate expertise into self-service checks.

You will drive design reviews, develop senior SA talent, and expand the function's impact across hardware deployments and cloud platforms, influencing