Amazon

Senior Solutions Architect | Architecte de solutions senior, ISV Canada

Amazon$146K — $211K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of design or consulting in applications and infrastructures
  • Deep expertise in cloud architecture, data analytics, AI/ML, and networking
  • Familiarity with modern architectural patterns such as microservices and serverless
  • Fluency in French and English required for the Quebec location
  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
  • Experience with scripting and software development in multiple languages

Responsibilities

  • Architect scalable and reusable cloud solutions for complex challenges
  • Build strategic relationships with senior customer leaders to influence technology strategy
  • Provide technical leadership and build consensus across teams for solution delivery
  • Develop and deliver workshops and presentations to help customers adopt new technologies
  • Advocate for customers' needs by identifying product gaps and feature requests

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
  • Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
  • Paid time off and wellness resources
  • Opportunities for stock options and sign-on bonuses
Full Job Description
Key job responsibilities

- Architect extensible, reusable, and operationally excellent cloud solutions to complex migration, modernization, and innovation challenges

- Build and own strategic relationships with senior customer leaders across business areas, understanding their industry context and business objectives to influence long-term technology strategy and proactively identify opportunities that support business outcomes

- Provide technical leadership across internal and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions, building consensus on technical approaches and negotiating architectural trade-offs to drive measurable business impact

- Develop and deliver technical content such as workshops, prototypes, and presentations and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies

- Advocate for customers by identifying product gaps and feature requests, and work with AWS service teams to help them understand customer needs

- Concevoir des solutions infonuagiques extensibles, réutilisables et opérationnellement excellentes pour relever des défis complexes de migration, de modernisation et d'innovation

- Bâtir et entretenir des relations stratégiques avec des dirigeants clients de haut niveau dans divers secteurs d'activité, en comprenant leur contexte industriel et leurs objectifs d'affaires afin d'influencer la stratégie technologique à long terme et d'identifier proactivement des occasions qui soutiennent les résultats d'affaires

- Fournir un leadership technique au sein des équipes internes et interfonctionnelles pour livrer des solutions, en établissant un consensus sur les approches techniques et en négociant les compromis architecturaux afin de générer un impact d'affaires mesurable

- Développer et présenter du contenu technique tel que des ateliers, des prototypes et des présentations, et prendre la parole lors d'événements pour aider les clients à évaluer et à adopter de nouvelles technologies

- Défendre les intérêts des clients en identifiant les lacunes de produits et les demandes de fonctionnalités, et collaborer avec les équipes de services AWS pour les aider à comprendre les besoins des clients

A day in the life

Your day as a Senior Solutions Architect blends strategic customer engagement, technical leadership, and organizational impact. You'll meet with senior customer stakeholders to understand their business strategy and influence their technology direction, architect solutions to complex, multi-faceted challenges, and build prototypes and reusable architectures that other Solutions Architects can leverage. You lead cross-team collaboration to deliver customer outcomes, create thought leadership content that educates the broader community, and mentor teammates on solving challenging problems. Throughout the day, you balance deep technical work with strategic influence, helping customers and your organization navigate ambiguity and make the right long-term trade-offs with confidence.

Votre journée en tant qu'architecte de solutions senior allie engagement stratégique auprès des clients, leadership technique et impact organisationnel. Vous rencontrerez des parties prenantes clients de haut niveau pour comprendre leur stratégie d'affaires et influencer leur orientation technologique, concevrez des solutions à des défis complexes et multidimensionnels, et bâtirez des prototypes et des architectures réutilisables que d'autres architectes de solutions pourront exploiter. Vous dirigerez la collaboration interéquipes pour livrer des résultats aux clients, créerez du contenu de leadership éclairé qui éduque la communauté élargie, et encadrerez vos coéquipiers dans la résolution de problèmes complexes. Tout au long de la journée, vous équilibrerez le travail technique approfondi avec l'influence stratégique, en aidant les clients et votre organisation à naviguer l'ambiguïté et à faire les bons compromis à long terme avec confiance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

- Deep technical expertise across multiple domains (cloud architecture, data & analytics, AI/ML, software development, security, networking) with ability to make informed trade-off decisions between extensibility, scalability, maintainability, and business value.

- Familiarity with modern architectural patterns such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems, with ability to adapt and extend these patterns for customer-specific needs.

- Only for Quebec location: fluency in French and English is required due to the nature of the role that requires interaction with other Amazon entities globally and with Amazon employees and stakeholders in other provinces in Canada.

- Plus de 5 ans d'expérience en conception, mise en œuvre ou consultation dans le domaine des applications et des infrastructures.

- Expertise technique approfondie dans plusieurs domaines (architecture infonuagique, données et analytique, IA/apprentissage automatique, développement logiciel, sécurité, réseautique) avec la capacité de prendre des décisions éclairées de compromis entre l'extensibilité, l'évolutivité, la maintenabilité et la valeur d'affaires.

- Connaissance des patrons d'architecture modernes tels que les microservices, l'informatique sans serveur et les systèmes événementiels, avec la capacité d'adapter et d'étendre ces patrons selon les besoins spécifiques des clients.

- Uniquement pour le poste au Québec : la maîtrise du français et de l'anglais est requise en raison de la nature du poste qui exige des interactions avec d'autres entités d'Amazon à l'échelle mondiale et avec les employés et les parties prenantes d'Amazon dans d'autres provinces du Canada.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree

- Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including designing, building, and deploying complex production workloads at scale.

- Proven track record of creating reusable technical assets (reference architectures, frameworks, code samples, automation tools) that other teams have successfully adopted.

- Experience designing and implementing complex AI/ML solutions, including generative AI, agentic applications, MLOps patterns, and RAG architectures.

- Experience with scripting, automation, and software development in multiple languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.)

- Baccalauréat

- Vaste expérience pratique avec les plateformes infonuagiques (AWS, Azure ou Google Cloud), incluant la conception, la construction et le déploiement de charges de travail de production complexes à grande échelle.

- Feuille de route éprouvée dans la création d'actifs techniques réutilisables (architectures de référence, cadres d'application, exemples de code, outils d'automatisation) qui ont été adoptés avec succès par d'autres équipes.

- Expérience dans la conception et la mise en œuvre de solutions complexes d'IA/apprentissage automatique, incluant l'IA générative, les applications agentiques, les patrons MLOps et les architectures RAG.

- Expérience en scripting, automatisation et développement logiciel dans plusieurs langages (Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.)

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

L'échelle salariale de base pour ce poste est indiquée ci-dessous. En tantqu'entreprise offrant une rémunération globale, Amazon peut inclure d'autres éléments dans son offre, tels que des primes à la signature et des unités d'actions restreintes (UAR). La rémunération finale sera déterminée en fonction de facteurs tels que l'expérience, les qualifications et le lieu de travail. Amazon offre des avantages sociaux complets, notamment une assurance maladie (soins médicaux, dentaires, vision, ordonnance, assurance-vie de base et assurance DMA), un régime enregistré d'épargne-retraite (REER), un régime de participation différée aux bénéfices (RPDB), des congés payés et d'autres ressources visant à améliorer la santé et le bien-être. Nous remercions tous les candidats de leur intérêt, mais seuls ceux retenus pour un entretien seront informés du résultat du processus de recrutement.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually

CAN, QC, Montreal - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually

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