Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Are you ready to help organizations navigate their cloud journey with AWS? As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will serve as a technical advisor for a premier media and entertainment customer. You will combine deep technical knowledge with business acumen to architect solutions that address complex challenges and drive innovation.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design and own end‑to‑end customer solutions, shepherding them through the implementation lifecycle while combining business acumen with technical skills.
• Drive technical solution discussions with customer teams, diving deeply into design choices, best practices, and use cases.
• Create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others, including sample code, blog posts, presentations, and workshops.
• Build consensus across customer teams by articulating concepts and strategies, harmonizing discordant views, and leading resolution of contentious issues.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate solution adoption by componentizing solutions and leveraging existing reusable assets for the broader customer community.

A day in the life:
You begin with internal stakeholder meetings to align on customer priorities, then join customer calls to discuss architecture and solution options. You experiment with new services to solve specific challenges, document findings, and conduct solutioning sessions where you craft architectures that address complex media workloads. You build proof‑of‑concepts to demonstrate feasibility, and you evangelize best practices to internal teams and customers.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in technology domain areas (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive‑level stakeholders or clients.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
• Cloud technology certification (AWS Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud Dev Ops Engineering).

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