Sr Data Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Come build the future of data with us! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a senior experienced and motivated Data Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) to help our Strategic Accounts customers architect the next generation of data platforms that power agentic AI and advanced analytics workloads. You should possess a unique balance of deep technical expertise in modern data technologies business acumen and exceptional interpersonal this role you will partner with our most valuable customers to design enterprise-wide data strategies that connect siloed data across organizations in secure scalable and innovative ways using AWS partner and open-source data technologies.

You will make a significant impact working directly with customer executives forming trusted relationships as you help them define and execute their data modernization roadmaps.
You will collaborate with AWS service teams to influence product direction and advocate for new features and capabilities based on Strategic Accounts needs. Our customers are industry leaders and if you have what it takes to guide these critical accounts through complex data transformation initiatives AWS wants to talk to you.

The ability to bridge database storage analytics and artificial intelligence technologies is essential for the Data SSA function. You should demonstrate strategic thinking about business challenges in the Agentic AI era and articulate technical solutions to address them. As a trusted customer advocate you will develop comprehensive data technology strategies for our largest Strategic Accounts customers operating in complex multi-faceted environments. You will interface with customer leadership to build relationships and enable them as data strategy champions. You will guide customers in designing advanced cloud-based data architectures implementing innovative technologies across AWS services (including Amazon RDS Aurora Redshift Athena EMR Glue Kinesis MSK) partner solutions (Snowflake Databricks) and open-source frameworks (Spark Flink Trino) while adopting the best cloud practices for databases storage and analytics services. You will share your successes and learnings with the broader AWS SA community.

Open to traveling up to 25% domestic with some international travel.


Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Solutions Design
Work closely with customers to design implement and manage AWS OSS and partner data solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives serving as a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey.
Delivering on-site technical assessments with partners and customers participating in customer visits understanding customer requirements and creating reference architectures utilizing AWS partner and OSS analytics database and storage solutions.
Engaging with customer business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a modern data ecosystem to support a world where agents are the primary consumers of data.

Data Architecture Design & Implementation
Help customers define and implement data architectures including data lakes and lakehouses to meet the demands of an agentic future while proving the value of AWS infrastructure to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services.

Technical Leadership & Advisory
As trusted advisors to customers provide guidance on industry trends emerging technologies and innovative solutions while leading the implementation process ensuring adherence to best practices optimizing performance and managing risks throughout the project.
This includes:

Working closely with stakeholders to gather requirements assess current infrastructure and propose effective migration strategies to AWS.
Owning technical engagements and ensuring timely and successful value delivery.

Project Delivery & Oversight
Overseeing project delivery and ensuring compliance with security and governance standards.
Owning the planning execution technical engagement and outcomes of specific implementation projects and assignments.

Collaboration & Communication
Collaborating with sales and technical teams to create proposals and assess customer needs.
Communicating with internal teams like Account Managers Service Teams and Go-to-Market bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

A day in the life
As a senior member of the account team you will drive customer satisfaction and revenue growth across a strategic portfolio. You will interact communicate and partner with other AWS organizations including service teams marketing professional services and business development to represent your customers needs to AWS executive leadership. You will think strategically about business product and technical challenges while maintaining a passion for educating training and designing innovative cloud data solutions for enterprise customers.

About the team
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- Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift S3 AWS Glue EMR Kinesis FireHose Lambda and IAM roles and permissions
- Experience with big data processing technology (e.g. Hadoop or ApacheSpark) data warehouse technical architecture infrastructure components ETL and reporting/analytic tools and environments
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
- 5 years of data engineering experience
- 10 years of database (eg. SQL NoSQL Hadoop Spark Kafka Kinesis) experience

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Masters degree or above in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Management Information Systems or other related discipline
- Experience in any Bigdata architecture or experience with automation and any version control tools and experience in deploying identity and access management systems
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Demonstrated experience with AI/ML model training pipelines feature stores and MLOps practices

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 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 Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.