Sr. Solutions Architect, Web Services, WWPS SA - EDU & SLG West

Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, WWPS SA - EDU & SLG West

Job :  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Do you have experience helping groups understand application architectures and migration approaches, and the skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? Are you familiar with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform?

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world‑class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best‑practices within the AWS Solution Architect community.

You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today.

• Design and architect end‑to‑end cloud solutions for customers, combining business acumen with deep technical expertise to solve complex, interconnected system challenges.
• Lead technical discussions and presentations with customer teams, providing best‑practice guidance and driving consensus on solution designs that meet both technical and business requirements.
• Develop and deliver technical thought leadership content including white papers, blog posts, reference architectures, and presentations to enable broader AWS adoption.
• Own the root cause resolution of complex technical problems and serve as a trusted advisor to customers, building relationships with senior leadership to influence long‑term technology strategy.
• Collaborate with internal AWS teams including sales, business development, product, and engineering to gather customer feedback and translate requirements into actionable product enhancements.

• Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures.
• Our Leadership Principles – It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
• The curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

• Technical presentation experience – whiteboard, small and large group presentations.
• Technical – experience designing, developing, deploying and/or migrating to cloud environments (one or more of these categories).
• Operational – website/services operations, management, and security.

This role requires the ability to travel 30%.

• 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.

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

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

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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