As a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will partner with customers to tackle their most complex problems, designing solutions that balance scalability, security, cost optimization, and performance. You will operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating business objectives into actionable technology strategies. Your work will span from defining cloud architecture blueprints to influencing product direction based on real customer needs. This is a role where your technical depth, business acumen, and ability to communicate across all levels will directly shape how organizations adopt and succeed with AWS.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design of end-to-end cloud solutions for customers, working backward from their business objectives to architect systems that are extensible, secure, reliable, and cost-optimized.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor by building relationships with customer leadership, understanding their technology challenges, and ensuring short-term decisions align with long-term business outcomes.
- Drive technical solution discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, best practices, and use cases while proactively identifying and mitigating high-risk or overly complex approaches.
- Develop and deliver technical content such as presentations, workshops, sample code, and white papers to educate customers on cloud strategy and architectural best practices.
- Collaborate with internal teams including sales, professional services, support, and engineering to accelerate solution adoption and contribute reusable reference designs for the broader Solutions Architecture community.
- Stay at the forefront of emerging technology in streaming, media supply chain, and ad tech, including generative AI, so you can keep earning your place as your customers' trusted advisor as their industry evolves.
- Build and showcase hands-on prototypes, demos, and proofs of concept that bring new capabilities to life and shorten the path from idea to production.
- Partner with ISVs and industry partners to shape joint solutions across live streaming, media asset management, and ad delivery and personalization.
- Share your expertise through blogs, conference talks, and industry events, helping AWS stay established as the cloud of choice for media companies looking to grow revenue and modernize their operations.
A day in the life
You might start your morning preparing for a strategy session with a customer's CTO, reviewing their current architecture and identifying areas where AWS services can unlock new capabilities. Later, you could be whiteboarding a solution design with a customer's engineering team, working through trade-offs around reliability and cost. In the afternoon, you might collaborate with AWS product teams to share patterns you've observed across customer engagements, then wrap up by drafting a reference architecture that other Solutions Architects can leverage for similar use cases.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Familiarity with media, entertainment, gaming, or sports industry workloads
- Domain expertise in one or more areas: media supply chain, streaming, gaming, live broadcast, or sports analytics
- Track record of thought leadership (publications, conference talks)
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Irvine - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Francisco - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Santa Monica - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
