Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of industry knowledge technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As the AWS Financial Services Senior Solutions Architect you will work with some of the worlds largest financial services companies AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address industry business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Financial Services Solutions Architects are viewed as experts in their domain and support customer engagements when those engagements require deep and authoritative industry expertise and a keen understanding of architectural and technical requirements. The Solutions Architects will influence the definition of the technical strategy for their industries by:
Identifying patterns
Defining technical trends that can affect the industry
Publishing reference architectures
Building industry quickstarts and other development kits
Collecting technical best practices in the industry
Establish credibility in sales cycles for AWS services by collaborating with field sales teams and customers to help design and build solutions that help solve customers business problems
The ideal candidate will have worked as a solutions architect within a Financial Services company or an industry solution vendors or system integrators. They will have demonstrated industry solutions expertise. They also will have an understanding of various software development methodologies including cloud DevOps.
Key job responsibilities
With the broader Financial Services team develop technical elements of the strategic plan for accelerating adoption of AWS across the industry
You will be responsible for establishing technical credibility in the sales cycle (personally or with the broader technical team) by supporting discussions across our Financial Services customers and partners
Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS within Financial Services and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
Act as a technical liaison between customers service engineering teams and support
Serve as a technical domain expert on deploying Financial Services industry workloads and applications on AWS
Architect solutions leveraging AWS technology including solution development and potentially demonstrate technical feasibility through mechanisms including proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes
Travel may be required for this role up to 25%
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
- 5 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
- 7 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Knowledge of AWS services market segments customer base and industry verticals
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit
for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.