Solutions Architect, Amazon
Enterprise
CA$115.1-166.9k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$115.1-166.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)
- Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
- Familiarity with modern architectures such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems
- Strong technical foundation in cloud architecture, data, AI/ML, and software development
- 3+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical advisory, or a similar customer-facing technical role
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby), or experience in software development
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
- Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including designing, building, and deploying production workloads
- Experience designing or implementing AI/ML solutions, including Generative AI and Agentic applications
What the job involves
- AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud across Enterprise customers, enabling organizations to innovate, and transform their business
- We are seeking a Solutions Architect to act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers design and build scalable, secure, and innovative cloud solutions by working backward from their business challenges
- In this role, you will partner with customers, sales, and cross-functional AWS teams to guide complex technology decisions and accelerate adoption
- You will design architectures and build prototypes to help customers deliver business outcomes
- This role offers continuous learning opportunities while working with the latest technologies and helping customers unlock new opportunities through innovation
- Design scalable, secure cloud architectures to support migration, modernization, and the development of cloud-native and AI-driven solutions
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor and customer advocate, helping customers identify both opportunities and risks in their technical decisions while proactively anticipating their evolving needs
- Translate customer requirements into technical solutions and communicating complex concepts clearly to both technical and business stakeholders
- Develop and deliver technical content such as workshops, prototypes, and presentations and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies
- Lead technical discussions, whiteboarding sessions, and proof-of-concept activities to guide customer decision-making and drive innovation
- Contribute to organizational growth by providing product feedback to AWS engineering teams, participating in recruiting and interviewing, and mentoring teammates
- Your day as a Solutions Architect blends customer engagement, technical design, and hands-on building
- You’ll meet with customers to understand their goals, design architectures to address their needs, and lead technical discussions to explore solutions
- You build prototypes to help customers evaluate approaches, collaborate with account teams on next steps, or share best practices that accelerate adoption
- Throughout the day, you’ll stay current with evolving technologies and continuously apply what you learn to help customers move forward with confidence
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 195 more jobs at Amazon