Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise Retail Tech

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chicago (IL); 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, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for the North American Retail team.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to some of the world’s largest Everyday Essentials companies, owning end-to-end technical engagements across POS, supply chain, loyalty, edge computing, and AI initiatives. You will lead architecture design, Well-Architected Reviews, and executive briefings, collaborating with ProServe and SI partners to deliver scalable cloud solutions at massive

Qualifications

• 4+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization (preferred).
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the trusted technical advisor and primary SA for strategic enterprise retail accounts, building deep relationships with C-suite technology leaders and influencing their cloud strategy.
• Own the end-to-end technical engagement: from discovery and architecture design through implementation support, optimization, and ongoing innovation.
• Lead Well-Architected Reviews and design sessions for complex, multi-region architectures supporting thousands of store locations globally.
• Develop and present Technical Account Plans that align AWS capabilities with customer business objectives (e.g., stores expansion goals, loyalty program growth, supply chain transformation).
• Conduct executive briefings, white-boarding sessions, and technical deep-dives with customer leadership and their technology partners.
• Architect solutions for retail-specific workloads including Point of Sale systems, supply chain platforms, loyalty/personalization engines, edge computing, and Voice AI solutions.

Skills

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Software development

IT infrastructure

Security

Data & analytics

Tools

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for the North American Retail team.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to some of the world’s largest Everyday Essentials companies, owning end-to-end technical engagements across POS, supply chain, loyalty, edge computing, and AI initiatives. You will lead architecture design, Well-Architected Reviews, and executive briefings, collaborating with ProServe and SI partners to deliver scalable cloud solutions at massive