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Do you want to help digital native ecommerce companies transform their businesses with cloud and AI technologies? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Sales is seeking a Solutions Architect III to join our Digital Native team, working with innovative ecommerce enterprises navigating complex cloud adoption and AI transformation journeys.
In this role, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to fast-growing digital commerce companies, representing the full breadth of AWS services. You will architect scalable, resilient cloud solutions that enable customers to leverage data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to enhance customer experiences, optimize operations, and accelerate growth.
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI innovation, helping some of the most dynamic companies in ecommerce achieve competitive advantage through technology.
Key job responsibilities
Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for digital native ecommerce customers, addressing complex technical challenges in data platforms, analytics pipelines, AI/ML workloads, and application modernization
Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture design reviews, and Well-Architected Reviews with customer engineering teams to ensure solutions follow cloud best practices for security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization
Drive customer success by providing strategic technical guidance on AI adoption, helping customers implement machine learning models, generative AI capabilities, and data-driven personalization to enhance their customer experiences and business outcomes
Collaborate with AWS service teams, Professional Services, and partner organizations to deliver innovative solutions, prototype new approaches, and remove technical blockers for customer implementations
Create and share technical thought leadership through reference architectures, blog posts, workshops, and presentations that enable broader adoption of AWS solutions in the ecommerce industry
A day in the life
You will engage deeply with customer engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges focused on data and AI. Your days include whiteboarding scalable architecture designs, conducting technical deep dives on AWS AI services, reviewing customer implementations for optimization opportunities, and collaborating with internal teams to prototype innovative solutions. You will balance strategic conversations about cloud transformation roadmaps with hands-on technical work, such as designing data lake architectures or architecting real-time ML inference pipelines for recommendation engines.
About the team
Join the AWS RRCG team, where we partner with innovative ecommerce companies that are redefining commerce experiences. Our team works with high-growth technology companies operating at significant scale, serving millions of customers and processing vast amounts of transactional data.
We foster a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession, where you will collaborate with talented solutions architects, specialists, and technical leaders who are passionate about helping customers innovate. You will have opportunities to deepen your expertise in emerging technologies like generative AI, machine learning, and cloud-native architectures while making meaningful impact on customer businesses.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s 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) inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications
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
2+ years of technology/software sales experience
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
Experience working with end user or developer communities
Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
Equal Opportunity
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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