Senior Solutions Architect, ISV Canada

AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud across Independent Software Vendors (ISV) customers enabling organizations to innovate and transform their business. We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to serve as a credible technical leader and strategic advisor helping customers architect solutions to complex business and technology challenges.

In this role you will partner with senior customer leaders sales and cross-functional AWS teams to influence long-term technology strategy and accelerate transformational cloud adoption. You will design end-to-end architectures lead cross-team solution delivery and create reusable assets that benefit customers across the organization. This role offers the opportunity to drive strategic impact while working with latest technologies and solving some of our customers most complex challenges.

Key job responsibilities
- Architect extensible reusable and operationally excellent cloud solutions to complex migration modernization and innovation challenges
- Build and own strategic relationships with senior customer leaders across business areas understanding their industry context and business objectives to influence long-term technology strategy and proactively identify opportunities that support business outcomes
- Provide technical leadership across internal and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions building consensus on technical approaches and negotiating architectural trade-offs to drive measurable business impact
- Develop and deliver technical content such as workshops prototypes and presentations and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies
- Advocate for customers by identifying product gaps and feature requests and work with AWS service teams to help them understand customer needs

A day in the life
Your day as a Senior Solutions Architect blends strategic customer engagement technical leadership and organizational impact. Youll meet with senior customer stakeholders to understand their business strategy and influence their technology direction architect solutions to complex multi-faceted challenges and build prototypes and reusable architectures that other Solutions Architects can leverage. You lead cross-team collaboration to deliver customer outcomes create thought leadership content that educates the broader community and mentor teammates on solving challenging problems. Throughout the day you balance deep technical work with strategic influence helping customers and your organization navigate ambiguity and make the right long-term trade-offs with confidence.

About the team
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 and unmatched technology. 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.

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. 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.

Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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- 5 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 8 years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
- Experience in a customer-facing role engaging with customer executives technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies
- Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
- Deep technical expertise across multiple domains (cloud architecture data & analytics AI/ML software development security networking) with ability to make informed trade-off decisions between extensibility scalability maintainability and business value.
- Familiarity with modern architectural patterns such as microservices serverless and event-driven systems with ability to adapt and extend these patterns for customer-specific needs.

- Bachelors degree
- Experience in designing and producing content for a technical audience such as Software Engineers System Administrators or IT professionals
- Experience writing for developer and technical audiences: blog product documentation technical information
- Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or Google Cloud) including designing building and deploying complex production workloads at scale.
- Proven track record of creating reusable technical assets (reference architectures frameworks code samples automation tools) that other teams have successfully adopted.
- Experience designing and implementing complex AI/ML solutions including generative AI agentic applications MLOps patterns and RAG architectures.
- Experience with scripting automation and software development in multiple languages (Python JavaScript Java etc.)

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN AB Calgary - 146000.00 - 211600.00 CAD annually
CAN BC Vancouver - 146000.00 - 211600.00 CAD annually