Sr Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts
Amazon· Solutions Architecture
Hybrid (Arlington, VA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Dallas, TX)$153.6k - $207.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior solutions architect role within AWS focusing on strategic financial services accounts, designing highly available, secure AWS architectures for core banking modernization, real-time payments, and risk/fraud and AI-driven workloads at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own Complex Solutions End-to-End — Lead the design, validation, and delivery of mission-critical architectures that merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to solve high-impact problems.
- Lead Technical Strategy & Advocacy — Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases to align solutions with both technical excellence and business outcomes.
- Prove Value Through Hands-On Innovation — Build proof-of-concept architectures and technical demonstrations that de-risk decisions and shorten the path from evaluation to production.
- Build Reusable Technical Content — Create scalable assets — sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations — that empower teams to implement best practices consistently.
- Forge Consensus Across Stakeholders — Articulate clear technical and strategic visions, resolve conflicts, and drive unified execution across cross-functional teams.
- Champion Customer Needs Back to AWS — Serve as the voice of your customer inside AWS, surfacing critical gaps and influencing service team roadmaps to benefit the broader financial services industry.
- Multiply Impact Through Reuse — Modularize solutions and leverage existing assets to reduce time-to-value and amplify impact across the customer community.
Qualifications
- 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
- Bachelor's degree
Skills
Required:Cloud computingArchitecture designStakeholder management
Nice to have:Proof-of-concept development
Benefits
- Base salary range listed: USA, VA, Arlington: 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
- Sign-on payments and RSUs included in package
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance; 401(k) matching; paid time off; parental leave; mental health support; flexible spending accounts; adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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