AWS Enterprise Sr. Solutions Architect, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate and Transportati

Overview

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer‑first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud.

Join us and help us grow.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect team partners with customers to design and build some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. AWS Solutions Architects collaborate with AWS Sales, AWS product and other AWS teams to help address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud‑based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You’ll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through your passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions.

You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your enterprise customers, and you will do this by mobilizing resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.

Travel is expected to be 15-20%.

On the business side, strong communication skills are essential. You will spend most of your day interacting with customers via email, phone, video, and in‑person meetings — with audiences ranging from developers and team leads to engineering directors and CxOs. We need someone who can adjust tone and technical depth based on the audience, read non‑verbal cues effectively, and pick up on unstated drivers behind decisions.

• Own the technical relationship with customers providing technical advocacy as they build and enhance their products on AWS
• Participate in deep architectural and design discussions with customers to create world‑class solutions built on AWS
• Work with customers to understand their business needs and provide prescriptive guidance on how to leverage AWS technologies
• Formulate and execute a strategy to drive adoption of AWS services within customer's platform
• Author and contribute to technical publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts that highlight AWS
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals at our customer to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Drive successful outcomes for both AWS and customers through technical enablement

• 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

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

This position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans), EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) are also part of the total compensation package.

• Mountain View, CA – $ – $ USD annually
• San Francisco, CA – $ – $ USD annually
• Chicago, IL – $ – $ USD annually
• Austin, TX – $ – $ USD annually
• Dallas, TX – $ – $ USD annually
• Seattle, WA – $ – $ USD annually

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