Principal, Solutions Architect - Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports , Solutions Architecture - AWSI-MEGS Direct Accounts

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

10d • Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Principal, Solutions Architect to serve as the strategic technical leader across the AWS Industries (AWSI) -Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports (MEGS) vertical. This role is chartered to drive long-term strategic thought leadership, accelerate high-value opportunity pursuits, and position AWS as a transformational partner across a portfolio of strategic customers. You'll operate at the C-suite and VP level, serving as a trusted senior technical advisor to some of the world's most influential media, entertainment, gaming, and sports companies. You'll partner with account teams, product teams, and SA leadership to shape technical strategy, sponsor innovation initiatives, and help customers navigate multi-year cloud transformation journeys. Your focus will be on identifying long-horizon strategic opportunities across the portfolio, driving cross-account pattern recognition, and ensuring AWS is positioned not just as a cloud provider, but as an innovation partner at the highest levels. We're looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, and comfortable operating independently. You should be able to connect technology to business outcomes and think strategically about where the industry is headed.

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 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
• 5+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role
• Experience designing large-scale cloud solutions

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Familiarity with media, entertainment, gaming, or sports industry workloads
• Domain expertise in one or more areas: media supply chain, streaming, gaming, live broadcast, or sports analytics
• Track record of thought leadership (publications, conference talks)
• Experience mentoring technical talent

Responsibilities

• Serve as the tech lead across multiple MEGS customers, with ability to dive deep on strategic customer engagements
• Abreast with the latest innovation across Data and AI at AWS, and identifying emerging solution and deployment patterns
• Advise senior technology leaders and executives on cloud strategy and architecture
• Design scalable, reliable architectures for media, gaming, streaming, and sports workloads
• Lead technical strategy across themes like content creation, media supply chain, live broadcast, gaming infrastructure, and sports technology
• Identify trends and common challenges across MEGS customers
• Evaluate new technologies and design patterns, and translate findings into actionable guidance for account teams
• Build reusable frameworks and solution blueprints that help teams move faster
• Create whitepapers, reference architectures, and best practices in collaboration with AWS Technical Field Communities
• Present at industry events (AWS 1P and 3P)
• Mentor Solutions Architects and help raise the technical bar across the organization
• Work backwards from customer needs to identify product gaps and influence AWS roadmaps
• Help customers re-imagine and transform existing systems leveraging innovations across data patterns and AI
• Support executive briefings and deep-dive sessions

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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