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.
Key job 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
A day in the life 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.
About the team 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.
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Basic Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.)
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, AB, Calgary - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually CAN, BC, Vancouver - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually