Amazon

Sr. Solutions Architect, Cross-Industry Greenfield

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5 days ago
Boston, MA, USA +6 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$154k - $229k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end customer solutions while balancing security, scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and operational efficiency.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to technical, business, and executive stakeholders and connect architecture decisions to business outcomes.
  • Evaluate customer architectures, identify risks and modernization opportunities, and deliver actionable remediation guidance and roadmaps.
  • Build and validate proof-of-concepts, prototypes, reference implementations, infrastructure, and tested deployments in sandbox and customer non-production environments.
  • Partner with sales, business development, professional services, support, product and engineering teams, and external partners to advance adoption and launch.
  • Create reusable code, tooling, reference architectures, workshops, white papers, blog posts, and presentations.
  • Mentor practitioners, lead design reviews, transfer knowledge, improve team processes, and recruit technical talent.
  • Translate customer evidence into actionable product and engineering feedback and represent the organization at industry events and customer forums.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
  • 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, or consulting on applications and infrastructures.
  • Bachelor's degree or a relevant cloud technology certification, such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud DevOps Engineering.
  • Experience with at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, and ability to work across additional languages as needed.
  • Experience owning sustained technical advisory relationships with customers that led to expanded workloads and deeper engagement.
  • Ability to independently advise on architecture and design, build working code and infrastructure-as-code solutions, and diagnose complex cross-system issues.
  • Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executive-level stakeholders or clients.
  • Experience defining technical approaches when multiple valid paths compete and no established pattern applies.
  • Preferred experience in pre-sales or customer-facing technical advisory work embedded in sales or account teams.
  • Preferred track record of producing reusable technical work, resolving contentious technical issues, synthesizing customer patterns into product feedback, and leading account technical strategy.
  • Preferred hands-on proficiency with AI/ML in production environments, including agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, foundation model integration, or AI-augmented development workflows.
  • Relevant technology certifications are preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, and flexible spending accounts.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon package; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
  • Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career-development resources, inclusive affinity groups, and work-life flexibility.
  • Travel and on-site customer engagement are part of the role as required by geography and customer portfolio.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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