AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, architects and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

Key job responsibilities
- As a key member of the SA team, ensure success in designing, building and modernizing applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.

- Provide architectural guidance and recommendations on running applications efficiently and reliably on AWS platform.

- Demonstrated communication skills and ability to convey complex ideas to a non-technical audience with an ability to connect technology with measurable business value.

- Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while crafting solutions that are designed for deployment in the cloud.

- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs, white papers, and proof of concepts.

- Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS cloud.

- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS

- In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute strategies to achieve business outcomes through the adoption of the AWS platform.

- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.

- Capture and share leading practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.

- Please note, this role requires domestic travel up to 25%.

A day in the life

AWS Solutions Architects work directly with customers, helping them leverage AWS services for competitive advantage. In this role, you'll provide technical guidance on architecture decisions spanning basic infrastructure to advanced solutions in serverless, analytics, and AI/ML. As a key member of the Account team, you'll share best practices within the AWS architect community while collaborating with and learning from top technical talent in enterprise architecture. You'll work backwards from customer needs to design solutions across security, compute, storage, and networking domains, while providing thought leadership and helping customers innovate using AWS's comprehensive cloud platform.


About the team

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.