Senior Solutions Architect, ISV Canada

Amazon • Vancouver, BC

42d

About The Position

AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud across Independent Software Vendors
(ISV)] 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 latest technologies and solving
some of our customers' most complex challenges.

Your day as a Senior Solutions Architect blends strategic customer engagement,
technical leadership, and 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,
and 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, and
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.

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 and unmatched technology. 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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted
cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating —
that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies
trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led
affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our
differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our
Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences,
inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s
Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and
other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded
professional.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 8+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• Experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies
• Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• 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, and business value.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in designing and producing content for a technical audience, such as Software Engineers, System Administrators, or IT professionals
• Experience writing for developer and technical audiences: blog, product documentation, technical information
• Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including designing, building, and deploying complex production workloads at scale.
• 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.
• 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: Mid Level