Senior AI Architect: Generative AI & Well-Architected

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

A Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, Inc. leads the long‑term AI architectural guidance strategy across AI workloads, aligning with the Well‑Architected pillars.

You will influence product direction, mentor architects, and drive scalable best practices with executive customers and industry partners. You will own generative AI patterns, agentic workflows, and security considerations, delivering prescriptive guidance and hands‑on validation through prototypes and reference

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• 7+ years of specific technology domain areas experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, or advising on ML/AI systems in production.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle: data prep, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, governance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across org boundaries without direct authority.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a track record of publishing authoritative technical content.

Responsibilities

• Set Strategic Technical Direction for AI/ML architectural guidance aligned to Well-Architected pillars.
• Lead Generative AI & Agentic AI thought leadership and drive consensus on complex decisions.
• Influence service roadmaps by partnering with AWS service teams and representing customer voice.
• Engage with strategic enterprise customers to validate guidance and translate insights into best practices.
• Drive innovation in content delivery and tooling to scale guidance creation and publication.
• Publish whitepapers and speak at events to establish AWS as the authority on AI architecture.

Skills

AI architectures

ML systems in production

Cross-functional leadership

Technical influence

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/Math

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker

Kendra

OpenSearch

Terraform

Job description

A Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, Inc. leads the long‑term AI architectural guidance strategy across AI workloads, aligning with the Well‑Architected pillars.

You will influence product direction, mentor architects, and drive scalable best practices with executive customers and industry partners. You will own generative AI patterns, agentic workflows, and security considerations, delivering prescriptive guidance and hands‑on validation through prototypes and reference