Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise Industry Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc.•5h ago
CanadaOnsiteCA$146K–CA$211.6KFull-timeSenior Level10+ yrs exp
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Solutions ArchitectEnterprise Architect
- AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud across Enterprise customers, enabling organizations to innovate and transform their business. We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to serve as a credible technical leader and strategic advisor, helping customers architect solutions to complex business and technology challenges. In this role, you will partner with senior customer leaders, sales
- cross-functional AWS teams to influence long-term technology strategy and accelerate transformational cloud adoption. You will design end-to-end architectures, lead cross-team solution delivery
- create reusable assets that benefit customers across the organization. This role offers the opportunity to drive strategic impact while working with cutting-edge technologies and solving some of our customers' most complex challenges. Key job responsibilities - Architect extensible, reusable
- operationally excellent cloud solutions to complex migration, modernization
- 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
- presentations and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies - Advocate for customers by identifying product gaps and feature requests
- work with AWS service teams to help them understand customer needs A day in the life Your day as a Senior Solutions Architect blends strategic customer engagement, technical leadership
- 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
- 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
- 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. About the team AWS Canada supports customers across the country, helping them adopt cloud technologies and accelerate innovation. The Solutions Architecture team works closely with customers and internal partners to design practical, scalable solutions tailored to each organization's needs. We value curiosity, ownership
- are motivated by the opportunity to help customers solve meaningful problems and build what's next on AWS. At AWS, we live by the principle: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. Senior Solutions Architects are technical leaders who combine deep expertise with business acumen, helping customers navigate complex transformations while developing the next generation of Solutions Architects.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience - 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
- 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
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience - Experience working with end user or developer communities - Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering) - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients - Bachelor's degree Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
- 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. 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
- 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
- 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. CAN, ON, Toronto - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually
Required skills
AWScloud computingsystems engineeringinfrastructuresecuritynetworkingdata & analyticsAI/MLsoftware development