Senior Director, Data & AI Solutions Architecture

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a senior technical leader to build and lead a team of specialist Solutions Architects focused on Data & AI within our Strategic Accounts organization. You will set technical direction, architect complex multi-service engagements, and coach senior engineers and CAIOs, CTOs, and CDOs on AI readiness and data modernization.

Your responsibilities span data governance, accelerator optimization, training and inference infrastructure, and agentic systems design,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, etc.
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing high-performing technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical vision and strategic direction for a team of specialist Solutions Architects spanning data architecture, AI/ML infrastructure, and open source domains
• Engage directly with customer CAIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and VPs of Engineering as a strategic advisor on AI readiness, data modernization, inference optimization, and emerging patterns such as semantic layers and context graphs
• Architect solutions alongside your team for complex, multi-service customer environments spanning data governance, accelerator optimization, training and inference infrastructure
• Hire, onboard, and develop senior technical talent; build a diverse and inclusive team culture that attracts and retains top performers
• Coach team members on architectural thinking, strategic customer engagement, and executive communication across both data and AI domains
• Develop prescriptive architectures, reference implementations, and competitive positioning that helps the broader field SA community lead AI and data conversations with their customers
• Represent the team externally through conference presentations, published architectures, and technical keynotes that establish AWS credibility across data platform and AI infrastructure
• Partner with AWS service teams to shape product roadmaps based on customer signals and emerging trends
• Collaborate with peer SA leaders and specialist organizations to deliver unified solutions across the full AI stack

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive stakeholder engagement

Cloud architecture

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a senior technical leader to build and lead a team of specialist Solutions Architects focused on Data & AI within our Strategic Accounts organization. You will set technical direction, architect complex multi-service engagements, and coach senior engineers and CAIOs, CTOs, and CDOs on AI readiness and data modernization.

Your responsibilities span data governance, accelerator optimization, training and inference infrastructure, and agentic systems design,