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# Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $176,600.0 - $239,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Software Tools, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/7A7F2554EB0840499BC4F5DACCF2A5CF/job/

## About the Role

* 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, * 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

## Description

As a Solutions Architect III, you will:

Own Complex Solution End-to-End

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.

Lead Technical Strategy & Advocacy

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.

Build Scalable Knowledge Assets

Create reusable, adoption-ready technical content-including sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations-that empowers teams to implement best practices efficiently and consistently.

Forge Consensus Across Stakeholders

Harmonize diverse perspectives by articulating clear technical and strategic visions. Resolve conflicts, align cross-functional teams, and drive unified execution of complex initiatives.

Accelerate Adoption Through Reuse

Identify opportunities to modularize solutions and leverage existing assets, reducing time-to-market and delivering greater value to the broader customer community.

A day in the life

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.

About the team

Our team partners with premier media and entertainment customers who are redefining how the world discovers, creates, and consumes content at global scale. We help these innovative companies transform their streaming platforms, studio production pipelines, and data-driven personalization engines, delivering exceptional viewing experiences to hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide. The scale and complexity at which our customers operate presents unique technical challenges that require creative, resilient 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 in content delivery, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems, helping customers achieve remarkable outcomes through AWS technologies.


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