Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Amazon • Santa Monica, CA

20h • $153,600 - $207,800

About The Position

Join the AWS Solutions Architecture team that works with a global social media platform and help design cloud solutions that drive millions of daily interactions and innovative user experiences. In this role, you’ll design highly scalable, secure AWS systems that support real-time messaging, immersive creative tools, and AI-driven safety features. You’ll bridge product and engineering, translating user needs into resilient architectures that enhance engagement, safety, and technical innovation across the platform. We value strategic thinkers who thrive in ambiguity, communicate powerfully across teams, and love mentoring others. Why join? Impact millions daily, grow with world-class projects, and innovate in a culture that celebrates bold ideas and diverse perspectives. Apply now to shape the next era of social connection. Your day begins with internal stakeholder meetings to align on customer priorities before joining customer calls to discuss technical architecture and solution options. You'll spend time experimenting with new services to solve specific customer challenges, then document your findings. Afternoons might include solutioning sessions where you craft architectures that address complex media workloads, followed by building proof-of-concepts to demonstrate feasibility. You'll close your day evangelizing best practices to both internal teams and customers. Our team partners with premier social media customers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the cloud. We help these innovative companies transform their businesses and deliver exceptional content experiences to millions of users worldwide. The scale at which our customers operate presents unique technical challenges that require creative solutions. Join us to be part of a team that values technical excellence, customer obsession, and innovation. You'll work alongside passionate technologists who are excited about solving complex problems and helping customers achieve remarkable outcomes through AWS technologies.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Nice To Haves

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, validation, and full lifecycle implementation of mission-critical customer solutions. Merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative architectures that solve high-impact problems.
• Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases. Challenge assumptions, validate architectures, and ensure solutions align with both technical excellence and business outcomes.
• Create reusable, adoption-ready technical content—including sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations—that empowers teams to implement best practices efficiently and consistently.
• Harmonize diverse perspectives by articulating clear technical and strategic visions. Resolve conflicts, align cross-functional teams, and drive unified execution of complex initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to modularize solutions and leverage existing assets, reducing time-to-market and delivering greater value to the broader customer community.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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

What This Job Offers

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