Senior Solutions Architect — AI & Cloud Prototyping

Amazon; Irvine (CA); 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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr Solutions Architect to lead software and technology customer engagements in Irvine, CA. Define technical direction, build AI-augmented PoCs, and validate architectures in customer sandboxes to accelerate decisions.

Lead architectural decisions, partner with sales and ProServe, and mentor teams while staying current with AI/Cloud capabilities to translate business goals into practical cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas experience (software, cloud, systems, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Demonstrated hands-on ability to build/validate solutions (code, IaC, deployments)
• Experience communicating with executive stakeholders and building senior technical relationships.

Responsibilities

• Build PoCs and proofs-of-concept in customer sandboxes using AI-augmented development tools to validate architectural recommendations.
• Deploy infrastructure using IaC (CDK, Terraform) in customer sandboxes, demonstrating patterns for scalability and security.
• Frame and resolve technical trade-offs across security, cost, ops burden, time-to-market, and compliance with clear recommendations.
• Own architectural decisions and ensure coherence across teams, staying engaged through implementation in the customer environment.

Skills

Executive communication

Hands-on delivery

Architectural thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/mathematics

Tools

CDK

Terraform

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr Solutions Architect to lead software and technology customer engagements in Irvine, CA. Define technical direction, build AI-augmented PoCs, and validate architectures in customer sandboxes to accelerate decisions.

Lead architectural decisions, partner with sales and ProServe, and mentor teams while staying current with AI/Cloud capabilities to translate business goals into practical cloud solutions.