Principal Solutions Architect, ISV, Strategic Accounts

Amazon • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

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
architecture guidance. 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.
Are you a technical leader who thrives on transforming complex challenges into
elegant solutions? Join us as a Principal Solutions Architect supporting a trail
blazer in the travel and hospitality space. In this strategic role, you'll serve
as a trusted technical advisor, guiding the customer through their technology
transformation journey while setting technical strategy that drives measurable
business outcomes.

As a Principal Solutions Architect, you'll leverage your technical expertise
across multiple domains to influence customer technical strategies and roadmaps.
You'll combine business acumen with deep technical knowledge to architect
solutions that address significantly complex problems. This role requires
someone who can operate with complete independence in ambiguous environments,
decomposing complex challenges into straightforward solutions, and establishing
yourself as a thought leader in the industry.

Requirements

• 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 architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical strategy for travel and hospitality customers, influencing their long-term business and technology decisions by demonstrating how adopting new technological capabilities can impact their business outcomes
• Design and deliver large-scale architectures and technical solutions that solve significantly complex problems, creating new patterns and methodologies that can be leveraged across the organization
• Serve as a trusted advisor to customer leadership, asking strategic questions they aren't asking themselves and guiding them through technology transformation journeys
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives requiring consensus and collaboration among many teams for successful solution delivery, effectively influencing and force-multiplying
• Mentor other Solutions Architects, sharing expertise and best practices while fostering growth and development within the team

Benefits

• Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal