Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Are you ready to help organizations navigate their cloud journey with AWS? As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will serve as a technical advisor for a strategic SaaS-provider customer. You will combine deep technical knowledge with business acumen to architect solutions that address complex challenges and drive innovation.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work with a customer who operates at unprecedented scale. You will leverage your foundational technical knowledge across various domains while diving deep into specific technical areas. With your builder mindset, you'll craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that help customers transform their business through technology.

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
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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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.

AWS Industries
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.


Key job responsibilities
Design and own end-to-end customer solutions, shepherding them through the implementation lifecycle while combining business acumen with technical skills to architect solutions for complex problems.

Drive technical solution discussions with customer teams, diving deeply into details including design choices, best practices, and use cases.

Create and share technical content - such as sample code, blog posts, presentations, and workshops - to educate others and promote best practices.

Build consensus across customer teams by clearly articulating concepts and strategies, and leading resolution of contentious issues.

Identify opportunities to accelerate solution adoption by leveraging reusable assets that can benefit the broader customer community.

A day in the life
As a Senior Solutions Architect supporting a strategic customer, you'll begin your day aligning with internal stakeholders on customer priorities before joining customer calls to explore technical architecture and solution options. You'll spend time experimenting with new AWS services to address specific customer challenges and document your findings for broader use. Your afternoons may include architecture sessions where you design solutions for complex workloads, followed by building proof-of-concepts to demonstrate feasibility. You'll also create and share best practices with both internal teams and customers through technical content and hands-on sessions.

About the team
Our team partners with a strategic SaaS provider. We help this innovative company transform their businesses and deliver exceptional value to their users worldwide. The scale at which our customer operate presents unique technical challenges that require creative solutions.

Join us to be part of a team that values technical excellence, customer obsession, and innovation. You'll work alongside passionate technologists who are excited about solving complex problems and helping customers achieve remarkable outcomes through AWS technolo