Senior Solutions Architect Analytics, AGS-NAMER-US-COV-SPEC-SA-Data&AI-Analytics

Application deadline: Mar 15 2026

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 customers unique challenges then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the worlds most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

At Amazon weve been using AI-based products for over 20 years. Want to make history We believe that Data is your Generative AI differentiator. Looking to solve some of the worlds most challenging data problems at scale Come and join the AWS Analytics team where we help our customers build and govern some of the worlds largest data lakes massively parallel data warehouses and some of the biggest and fastest streaming pipelines. Thousands of customers run managed analytic workloads on Amazons industry leading cloud computing platform.

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 customers technical experience. We work directly with our customers technical and business leaders joining forces with Account Managers Business Development and Service Teams to enable customer adoption and growth.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers Become an AWS Specialist SA!


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. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.


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 customers 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.

About the team
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- 8 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
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of data engineering pipelines cloud solutions ETL management databases visualizations and analytical platforms
- Knowledge of open table formats especially Iceberg
- Understanding of data foundation principles supporting agentic systems

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at AZ TEMPE - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA CA Mountain View - 176600.00 - 239000.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 176600.00 - 239000.00 USD annually
USA CO Denver - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA WA Redmond - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually