Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts (AWS)

Amazon; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 176,600 - 239,000; 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 Strategic Accounts to partner with our most valuable customers, designing cloud architectures using AWS services. You will drive revenue growth, influence product direction, and help customers scale workloads to the cloud.

You will engage with executives and product owners to shape strategy and ensure successful migration, modernization, and elastic, cost-optimized solutions for complex environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies related to cloud computing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR 12+ years of related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with strategic accounts to design cloud architectures using AWS services.
• Drive revenue growth across specific customers and act as a trusted advocate within AWS.
• Influence product direction and help customers leverage AWS services to meet business goals.
• Communicate with internal teams and executive management to shape and execute strategy.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Systems engineering

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

12+ years of related work experience

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Job ID: 3195025 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

As an AWS Senior Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment, you partner with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures using AWS services. You help customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to market, building elastic, scalable, cost‑optimized applications, and migrating and scaling existing workloads to the cloud. You engage product owners to influence product direction and help customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS services. You identify patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across industry segments to accelerate innovation.

You will be a core member of the account team, driving revenue growth across specific customers. As a trusted advocate you will shape and execute a strategy to build AWS knowledge and use across our customers, and you will communicate with other internal teams and executive management.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies related to cloud computing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR 12+ years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed application environments.
• 5+ years of specific technology domain experience (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• Strong presentation and white‑boarding skills and ability to speak comfortably with executives, IT managers, and developers.
• Experience in technology/software sales, pre‑sales, or consulting.
• Professional experience architecting and operating cloud‑based solutions.
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or equivalent cloud expertise.

The base salary range for this position is 176,600.00 – 239,000.00 USD annually (USA, CA, San Francisco). Your Amazon package includes sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and other benefits such as health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.