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Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Plus Team

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    23 days ago

    Job Description

    What if your customer was Amazon itself? AWS Plus is a specialized account team within AWS that supports Amazon"s own business units as strategic cloud customers. As a Senior Solutions Architect on this team, you"ll be the primary technical advisor to one or more of Amazon"s businesses, working directly with their engineering teams and technology leaders to design, operate, and optimize AWS workloads at a scale few external customers ever reach.

    Amazon"s businesses run some of the largest and most demanding workloads on AWS, and they expect their Solutions Architect to operate as a true peer to their engineers. You"ll go deep on your customer"s domain, make prescriptive architecture recommendations, and help them adopt new AWS capabilities, including generative and agentic AI, ahead of the broader market.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the technical relationship with your assigned Amazon business units, serving as trusted advisor to engineering teams and VP- and Director-level technology leaders, and translating their business goals into AWS architecture and adoption strategy.
    • Make prescriptive recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency for large-scale, business-critical workloads.
    • Architect and advise on solutions across a broad range of AWS services, including compute, storage, data and analytics, integration, and AI/ML, matched to the customer"s domain.
    • Guide adoption of generative and agentic AI capabilities, using services such as Amazon Bedrock.
    • Work backwards from customer business needs to translate requirements into well-architected designs and into the feature requests that influence AWS service roadmaps.
    • Collaborate with AWS account management, Customer Solutions Managers, AWS Support, service teams, and the broader Solutions Architecture community to deliver complete technical coverage and speed up resolution of complex challenges.

    A day in the life

    You"ll work directly with the engineering teams behind one of Amazon"s businesses, who run some of the largest workloads on AWS. That might mean an architecture review on a multi-region design one morning, a cost optimization deep dive in the afternoon, and a working session with an AWS service team on a customer feature request in between. You"ll meet regularly with VP- and Director-level technology stakeholders, surface customer feedback to AWS product teams, and help shape how Amazon"s internal businesses adopt new AWS capabilities. Your ability to go deep on your customer"s domain is what earns you credibility.

    About the team

    AWS Plus is a dedicated account team that supports Amazon"s own business units as strategic AWS customers. Our customers span Amazon"s consumer, media, devices, operations, and corporate businesses, and together they represent some of the largest AWS deployments in the world. We work alongside aligned Customer Solutions Managers, AWS Support, and AWS service teams to make Amazon a strong reference for running on AWS at scale. We value work-life balance, offer flexibility in working hours, and believe the right balance between your personal and professional life is key to long-term fulfilment. Amazon offers a competitive package including shares, sign-on bonus, and benefits.

    About the team

    Diverse Experiences

    AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

    Why AWS?

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

    Inclusive Team Culture

    Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

    Mentorship & Career Growth

    We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

    Work/Life Balance

    We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the clou

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles
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    Skills

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Computer Servicesunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Storageunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Sales Managementunmatched
    • Startupunmatched
    • Technical Deliveryunmatched

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

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