Solutions Architect, ECRT (AI, IoT & PoCs)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 131,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Solutions Architect for Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Transportation (ECRT) customers.

You will define technical direction, combine architectural reasoning with hands-on validation in customer environments, and drive AI-enabled solutions that accelerate adoption. You build prototypes, PoCs, and AI-driven capabilities, collaborating with sales and delivery teams to align cloud strategy with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development, cloud computing, or related IT fields.
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.

Responsibilities

• Build working prototypes in customer non-production sandbox environments using AI-augmented development tools (Kiro, Claude Code, Bedrock) to validate architectural recommendations and accelerate customer adoption
• Implement directly to unblock customer decisions: build PoCs for digital twins (IoT TwinMaker), fleet IoT, predictive maintenance, and agentic AI, proving architectural approaches
• Deploy infrastructure using IaC (CDK, Terraform) in customer sandboxes, demonstrating scalability and security patterns
• Apply GenAI and agentic systems (multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, foundation model integration) where they solve ECRT customer problems
• Frame and resolve technical trade-offs involving multiple competing concerns (security vs. cost vs. operational burden vs. time-to-market vs. industry compliance)
• Own the architectural decisions that downstream teams build against and own the consequences with the customer when those decisions need revisiting

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Data & Analytics

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Solutions Architect for Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Transportation (ECRT) customers.

You will define technical direction, combine architectural reasoning with hands-on validation in customer environments, and drive AI-enabled solutions that accelerate adoption. You build prototypes, PoCs, and AI-driven capabilities, collaborating with sales and delivery teams to align cloud strategy with business outcomes.