Principal Solutions Architect: Context Adoption Leader

Amazon; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the technical adoption strategy for AWS Context, the org-wide knowledge graph for AI agents. You will guide customers through AWS Glue Data Catalog components and multiple AWS services, shaping the service roadmap and creating scalable reference architectures.

You will mentor senior architects, influence product direction, and build external thought leadership to define how the market understands agentic context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology domains (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end roadmaps guiding IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical adoption strategy for AWS Context, prioritizing use cases, industries, and customers; orchestrate evaluation motion for other Solutions Architects.
• Lead highest-stakes customer engagements, framing undefined problem spaces with customer architects and executives; design agentic solutions leveraging governed context across AWS Glue Data Catalog, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg, Athena, Bedrock, and Lake Formation.
• Establish reusable reference architectures and standards to raise the bar for the team; codify field learnings into artifacts that accelerate engagements and ensure consistency.
• Influence the AWS Context service roadmap; synthesize field learnings into business and technical requirements; contribute to early product formation.
• Build external technical thought leadership through content creation and speaking engagements; mentor senior Solutions Architects; contribute to hiring strategy.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud computing

Public speaking

Data & analytics

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Tools

AWS Glue Data Catalog

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

Apache Iceberg

Amazon Athena

Amazon Bedrock

Lake Formation

Job description

Amazon seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the technical adoption strategy for AWS Context, the org-wide knowledge graph for AI agents. You will guide customers through AWS Glue Data Catalog components and multiple AWS services, shaping the service roadmap and creating scalable reference architectures.

You will mentor senior architects, influence product direction, and build external thought leadership to define how the market understands agentic context.