Strategic Solutions Architect, Greenfield Cross-Industry

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Career development

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks an Account Solutions Architect to be the trusted technical advisor from first engagement through production, guiding customers toward measurable business outcomes and sustained technical relationships.

You will design end-to-end cloud solutions, collaborate with sales and engineering teams, and drive modernization while ensuring security and operational excellence. On-site, cross-region travel is expected where needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains (e.g., software, cloud, infrastructure)
• Experience designing architectures for customers
• Strong written and verbal communication to executive stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Designs end-to-end solutions balancing security, scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and operations.
• Act as trusted advisor to customer stakeholders, linking objectives to architectures.
• Advances decisions with tangible business outcomes via architecture reasoning and demonstrations.
• Evaluate existing architectures and provide remediation and modernization roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Programming: Python/Java/TypeScript

Technical advisory

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree or Cloud Certification

Tools

Python

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks an Account Solutions Architect to be the trusted technical advisor from first engagement through production, guiding customers toward measurable business outcomes and sustained technical relationships.

You will design end-to-end cloud solutions, collaborate with sales and engineering teams, and drive modernization while ensuring security and operational excellence. On-site, cross-region travel is expected where needed.