Senior Solutions Architect

This role is within the Swiss organization. You will be working with innovative Independent Software Vendors (ISV) to help them be successful on AWS working backwards from their needs.

Solutions Architects work close to customers. They engage with organizations at all stages of their cloud adoption and are responsible for the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS. They make recommendations on architecture security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency. They work to understand the customers needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with AWS technology.

Solutions Architects lead activities such as architecture reviews white-boarding sessions demos and technical workshops.

They collaborate with other teams such as account management professional services support product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.

In this role you will get to practice your creativity linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. (e.g. Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Serverless and Container-based architectures Analytics and Big Data DevOps or Security).

The Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required provided you have a sound technical foundation and a desire to learn. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will learn something new from your customers your peers and your experiments.

At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is suitable for the customers long-term success. We value your passion for discovering inventing and building on behalf of customers.

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Key job responsibilities
Help Swiss ISVs to accelerate their challenging mission-critical projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes. Agentic AI and SaaSification are a key topics as containerization and infusion of innovative services within their solutions.
Build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
Participate in creating and sharing best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers code samples blog posts as it suits best).
Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops user groups meetups public speaking online videos or conferences).
Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customers outcomes.

About the team
Our team is based in Switzerland offering a dynamic and collaborative work environment in the heart of Europe. As part of a broader EMEA organization working with Software Vendors we benefit from strong cross-regional synergies that foster knowledge sharing diverse perspectives and innovative approaches to our work. This structure provides exciting opportunities for team members to collaborate with colleagues across multiple geographies and engage in cross-border projects.

- 10 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- Bachelors 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
- Fluent English and French
- - 10 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- - Bachelors 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
- - Fluent English and French

- 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
- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts including modern Large Language Models (LLMs) prompt engineering and AI integration patterns or equivalent
- Understanding of agentic AI frameworks and architectures including autonomous agents and multi-agent orchestration

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