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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture - Data & AI... - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $231,200.0 - $312,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, AI Infrastructure, Google Cloud, IT Architecture, Machine Learning Operations, Virtual Agents, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - **Published:** June 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g9qrbh ## About the Role 7+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience - 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience - Bachelor's degree - Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc., Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud ## Description Do you want to lead a team at the frontier of where data architecture meets AI? Are you energized by helping customers make their data estates ready for production AI and agentic systems operating at enterprise scale? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a hands-on technical leader to build and lead a team of specialist Solutions Architects and Customer Development Engineers focused on Data & AI Foundations. You will help customers modernize their data architectures to enable AI and agentic system readiness, working across the full stack from accelerator optimization, through lakehouse and streaming architectures, to training and inference infrastructure. You will also guide customers through emerging architectural patterns including semantic layers, context graphs, and governed metrics stores that give AI systems the business understanding to operate reliably. This is a leadership role where you architect alongside your team, coach them through complex customer engagements, and bring forward-looking technical vision to our most strategic accounts. You will shape solutions in spaces where the playbook is still being written and bring customer signals back to AWS service teams to influence roadmaps. Key job responsibilities - Lead, mentor, and develop a team of specialist Solutions Architects and Customer Development Engineers across data, AI infrastructure, and open source domains - Engage directly with customers as a technical advisor on data architecture modernization, AI readiness, and emerging patterns such as semantic layers, context graphs, and metrics stores - Architect solutions alongside your team for complex, multi-service customer environments spanning data governance, compute optimization, and ML infrastructure - Hire, onboard, and train new team members; build a diverse and inclusive team culture - Coach team members on architectural thinking, customer engagement, and executive communication - Develop prescriptive architectures, reference implementations, and enablement content that helps the broader field SA community have these conversations with their own customers - Lead builders who work directly in customer environments, delivering hands-on implementation alongside advisory engagements - Represent the team externally through conference presentations, published architectures, and technical keynotes that establish credibility in the data and AI space - Partner with AWS service teams to shape product roadmaps based on customer signals and emerging trends - Collaborate with peer SA managers, Professional Services, and specialist organizations to deliver unified solutions - Drive open source engagement and contribution where it accelerates customer outcomes A day in the life You might start the morning reviewing a customer architecture where a data engineering team is building a semantic layer to make their lakehouse AI-ready. After lunch, you coach a team member preparing to present inference optimization options to a customer VP of Engineering. Later, you finalize a conference talk on emerging context graph patterns you are seeing across your customer base. You close the day connecting with your peer leading Agentic AI Systems to align on a shared customer pursuing end-to-end AI readiness., Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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