Senior Cloud Solutions Architect – Financial Services

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon, a leading global cloud provider, seeks a Sr. Solutions Architect for US Insurance within the Financial Services sector.

The role focuses on designing scalable cloud solutions, assessing workloads, and making informed trade-offs across compute, networking, storage, security, and software development to guide implementations and drive customer value. You will engage with senior leaders, translate business objectives into technical strategies, and lead architectural discussions with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology domain experience (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex customer requirements, making technical trade-offs and evaluating architectures for scale while ensuring solutions are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer senior leaders, understanding their business objectives and technical challenges to influence strategic direction and ensure technology decisions meet long-term business outcomes.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences, creating technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others while harmonizing discordant views to build consensus.
• Lead technical discussions and dive deeply into technical details with customer teams across application architecture, system design, and implementation considerations, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Drive effective customer feedback gathering, distilling and translating feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams while contributing to reference designs and reusable artifacts.

Job description

Amazon, a leading global cloud provider, seeks a Sr. Solutions Architect for US Insurance within the Financial Services sector.

The role focuses on designing scalable cloud solutions, assessing workloads, and making informed trade-offs across compute, networking, storage, security, and software development to guide implementations and drive customer value. You will engage with senior leaders, translate business objectives into technical strategies, and lead architectural discussions with