Senior Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing
Listed on 2026-07-25
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Description
AWS Automotive and Manufacturing team is seeking an experienced and motivated technologist with technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with the world’s largest automotive and manufacturing firms, AWS Sales, and other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption.
This role will drive AWS technology adoption and revenue growth across assigned automotive and manufacturing customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will work directly with leading industrial manufacturers as they reimagine how things are designed, built, and operated. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers navigate architectural decisions across connected vehicle platforms, digital twins, smart factory/Industry 4.0 initiatives, supply chain optimization, and software‑defined vehicle (SDV) strategies.
As a key member of the Account Team, you will guide customers’ architectural choices across use cases involving IoT, edge computing, high‑performance computing (HPC), security, data lakes and analytics, AI/ML, simulation, and robotics. You will provide technical design guidance and thought leadership, contribute to best‑practice knowledge sharing within the broader AWS Solutions Architecture community, and help develop reusable industry reference architectures.
Key Job Responsibilities- Serve as the primary technical point of contact and trusted advisor for assigned Automotive and Manufacturing accounts, engaging Director‑level engineering leaders and senior technical stakeholders.
- Architect and design scalable, secure, and cost‑effective cloud solutions for industry‑specific workloads including connected vehicle data platforms, digital twin environments, MES/SCADA cloud integration, and smart factory deployments.
- Bridge IT and OT—connect traditional enterprise IT architectures with operational technology (OT) environments on the shop floor and at the edge, leveraging AWS IoT, edge, and hybrid services.
- Develop and execute technical account plans aligned with customers’ business objectives and digital transformation roadmaps.
- Lead proof‑of‑concept engagements and architectural reviews to accelerate customer adoption and de‑risk production deployments.
- Provide customer feedback to AWS service teams and advocate for industry‑relevant feature development.
- Contribute to industry thought leadership—create reference architectures, blog posts, and reusable technical assets for the vertical.
- Present at AWS events (Re:Invent, Summits, industry conferences) and participate in customer technical workshops.
- Share knowledge and best practices with peers in the Solutions Architecture community, contributing to technical community development.
- Stay current with industry megatrends (electrification, SDV, Industry 4.0, sustainability) and connect them with AWS capabilities to drive customer outcomes.
- 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in application and infrastructure deployments.
- Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive‑level stakeholders or clients.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent, or experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
- Working knowledge of at least two of the following domains:
IoT/edge computing, data analytics/data lakes, AI/ML, HPC, Dev Ops/CI‑CD, or application modernization.
- 3+ years of solving technology problems in the Automotive & Manufacturing industries.
- Experience selling into or working for large companies.
- AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification.
- Experience with connected vehicle / IoT platforms, including vehicle data ingestion, telematics, V2X, and over‑the‑air (OTA) update architectures.
- Familiarity with Industry 4.0 concepts:…
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