Senior Solutions Architect: Shape Strategy & Outcomes

Amazon; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Irvine, CA seeks a Solutions Architect III to design end-to-end customer solutions, balancing reliability, security, performance, and cost. You will partner with senior leaders to align technology strategy with business goals and mentor peers across the architect community.

You will lead deep-dive discussions, craft reference designs, and collaborate with sales, engineering, and services to drive adoption and feature requests to product teams.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end customer solutions by understanding business context, clarifying assumptions, and architecting systems that balance reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, building relationships with senior leaders and guiding their technology strategy to align short-term decisions with long-term business outcomes.
• Lead technical discussions with customer teams, diving deep into design choices, best practices, and use cases while proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex solution options and engaging the right expert resources when needed.
• Develop and deliver thought leadership content — including sample code, presentations, white papers, and workshops — that educates customers on technology strategy and contributes reusable patterns and reference designs for the broader architect community.
• Collaborate with internal teams across sales, engineering, professional services, and support to accelerate solution adoption, gather product feedback, and translate customer needs into clear requirements for product and engineering teams.

Skills

Software development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Tools

SAP systems

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Cloud Platform

Cloud ERP

Job description

Amazon in Irvine, CA seeks a Solutions Architect III to design end-to-end customer solutions, balancing reliability, security, performance, and cost. You will partner with senior leaders to align technology strategy with business goals and mentor peers across the architect community.

You will lead deep-dive discussions, craft reference designs, and collaborate with sales, engineering, and services to drive adoption and feature requests to product teams.