Analytics Specialized Solutions Architect

About

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, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. 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.

At Amazon we’ve been using AI-based products for over 20 years. We believe that Data is your Generative AI differentiator. We help our customers build and govern some of the world’s largest data lakes, massively parallel data warehouses, and some of the biggest and fastest streaming pipelines.

We are looking for an Analytics Specialized 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.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address complex challenges.

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.

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.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

Inclusive Team Culture

Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We offer endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas experience (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Experience working with end user or developer communities.
• Knowledge of open table formats, especially Iceberg.
• Understanding of data foundation principles supporting agentic systems.

Additional Information

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties include working safely and cooperatively, adhering to standards of excellence, communicating effectively and respectfully, and following all laws and company policies. Criminal history may affect job duties.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. Accommodations are available during application and hiring processes.

Salary

• USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, MA, Boston - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans), Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.