We are seeking a seasoned Principal Solution Architect driving the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance, and secure systems on the AWS platform. You are the technical visionaries who translate complex business requirements into innovative cloud-native solutions, leveraging the full spectrum of AWS services and best practices. You build credibility through deep understanding of both the customer's business challenges and the OTS ecosystem. You collaborate closely with stakeholders to architect solutions that optimize for performance, cost-efficiency, and operational excellence, adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Key job responsibilities
- Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services with AWS
- Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems and help them implement scalable and resilient systems.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of OTS ecosystem and showcase the art of possible.
- Drive deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create solutions built on cloud services
- Author and contribute to OTS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, workshops, demos and proof of concepts.
- Build deep relationships with customer engineering, product, and science leaders.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge across internal Amazon builders and the WWops solutions architect community.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you!
At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
Ops Tech Infrastructure Product Management (OTIP) owns, defines, and operationalizes products and programs to deliver highly reliable IT infrastructure and world class IT support, with the direct objective to scale our support efficiently, improve service delivery speed, and drive new innovations for customers. OTIP establishes, practices, and enforces Ops Tech Infrastructure’s product development life cycle. The team supports global operations customers (first, middle, last mile) and internal teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ 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
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