Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise - Retail, CPG and Travel & Hospitality

Amazon • Vancouver, BC

5d • CA$146,000 - CA$211,600 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud across Retail 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, and 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, and create reusable assets that benefit customers across the organization. This role offers the opportunity to drive strategic impact while working with technologies and solving some of our customers' most complex challenges.

Requirements

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
• Proven experience architecting and guiding implementation of complex, end-to-end solutions in distributed systems and cloud architectures
• Familiarity with modern architectural patterns such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems, with ability to adapt and extend these patterns for customer-specific needs

Nice To Haves

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
• Experience in the retail sector
• Experience writing high-quality technical content for technical audiences (e.g., engineers, developers, scientists)
• Proven track record of creating reusable technical assets (reference architectures, frameworks, code samples, automation tools) that other teams have successfully adopted
• Experience designing and implementing complex AI/ML solutions, including generative AI, agentic applications, MLOps patterns, and RAG architectures
• Thought leadership through speaking at industry conferences, writing technical blog posts/white papers, or contributing to open-source projects
• Experience with scripting, automation, and software development in multiple languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Architect extensible, reusable, and operationally excellent cloud solutions to complex migration, modernization, and 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, and presentations and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies
• Advocate for customers by identifying product gaps and feature requests, and work with AWS service teams to help them understand customer needs

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed