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# Principal Analytics Solutions Architect, US AGS Specialist SA

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,200.0 - $284,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Database Design, Distributed Systems, IT Management, Software Engineering, SQL Server Analysis Services, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10496100/principal-analytics-solutions-architect-us-ags-specialist-sa

## About the Role

10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

 - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
 - Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
 - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications, Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
 - Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
 - Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
 - Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
 - Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

## Description

We are looking for an Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) that can help customers leverage AWS services to solve their most challenging business problems. AWS Solution Architects are well-respected and highly-visible, partnering across the company to own the customer's technical experience. We work directly with our customer's technical and business leaders, joining forces with Account Managers, Business Development, and Service Teams to enable customer adoption and growth.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Area Specialist Team is made up of deep domain experts who work directly with our customers to solve their most complex challenges. We are part of the Account Team, responsible for account planning, opportunity identification, and pursuit. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams, strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.

Key job responsibilities

 - Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
 - Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers' most challenging business problems.
 - Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
 - Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer's technical objectives.
 - Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc. Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.
 - Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
 - Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams. Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.

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