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Solutions Architect III

Amazon.com Inc
  • Arlington, VA
    10 days ago

    Job Description

    Are you passionate about helping customers solve complex technical challenges and shaping their technology strategy? As a Solutions Architect III at Amazon, you will partner directly with customers to design end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes - from reducing costs and mitigating risks to unlocking new revenue streams. You will combine deep technical expertise with business acumen to architect solutions that are extensible, secure, reliable, and cost-optimized. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor, building relationships with senior leaders, influencing long-term technology direction, and translating business objectives into pragmatic technical designs. You will also contribute to thought leadership through technical content such as blog posts, workshops, and reference architectures, while mentoring fellow architects and raising the bar across the team.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design and own end-to-end customer solutions by understanding business context, clarifying assumptions, and architecting systems that balance reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
    • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, building relationships with senior leaders and guiding their technology strategy to align short-term decisions with long-term business outcomes.
    • Lead technical discussions with customer teams, diving deep into design choices, best practices, and use cases while proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex solution options and engaging the right expert resources when needed.
    • Develop and deliver thought leadership content - including sample code, presentations, white papers, and workshops - that educates customers on technology strategy and contributes reusable patterns and reference designs for the broader architect community.
    • Collaborate with internal teams across sales, engineering, professional services, and support to accelerate solution adoption, gather product feedback, and translate customer needs into clear requirements for product and engineering teams.

    A day in the life

    You might start your morning reviewing a customer"s architecture proposal, identifying opportunities to simplify their design while improving scalability. By midday, you could be leading a technical deep-dive with a customer"s engineering team, walking through trade-offs and recommending approaches grounded in real-world experience. In the afternoon, you may partner with product teams to advocate for a feature your customer needs, or spend time refining a workshop you are building to share lessons learned with fellow architects.

    About the team

    Our team is focused on helping customers navigate their most complex technology challenges and achieve lasting business impact. We work collaboratively across Amazon to bring the right expertise to every engagement, and we invest in each other"s growth through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. If you are excited about working at the intersection of technology and business strategy, and you want to shape how customers build for the future, we would love to hear from you.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationArlington, VA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    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

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Architectural Designunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Blogunmatched
    • Business Architectureunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Content Delivery/Distributionunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Customer Trainingunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Divingunmatched
    • Inside Salesunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Professional Servicesunmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • Systems Reliabilityunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Technical Strategyunmatched
    • Technical Supportunmatched
    • Technical Writingunmatched
    • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
    • Thought Leadershipunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched
    • White Papersunmatched

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