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
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually