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Sr Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Amazon.com Inc

  • Arlington, VA
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    You"ll work at the intersection of engineering and financial services, translating complex regulatory and business challenges into elegant cloud solutions that span high-availability transaction processing, data-intensive risk and fraud detection systems, and generative AI experiences that transform how customers manage their financial lives. Your day spans internal alignment meetings, customer architecture discussions, and hands-on experimentation with AWS services to solve financial services challenges - real-time payments, fraud detection, core banking modernization.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationArlington, VA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Join the AWS Solutions Architecture team that partners with one of the world"s largest financial institutions, serving tens of millions of customers and processing trillions of dollars in transactions annually. In this role, you"ll design highly resilient, secure AWS architectures that power core banking modernization, real-time payments infrastructure, and mission-critical financial workloads at global scale.

    You"ll work at the intersection of engineering and financial services, translating complex regulatory and business challenges into elegant cloud solutions that span high-availability transaction processing, data-intensive risk and fraud detection systems, and generative AI experiences that transform how customers manage their financial lives. We"re looking for strategic thinkers who excel in ambiguity, communicate with clarity across technical and business stakeholders, and are energized by mentoring others.

    Why join? Shape how millions of people interact with their financial institution, collaborate on some of the most sophisticated and compliance-driven cloud architectures at scale, and innovate in a culture that values curiosity, ownership, and diverse perspectives. Apply now to architect the future of digital banking and financial services.

    Key job responsibilities

    Own Complex Solutions End-to-End - Lead the design, validation, and delivery of mission-critical architectures that merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to solve high-impact problems.

    Lead Technical Strategy & Advocacy - Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases to align solutions with both technical excellence and business outcomes.

    Prove Value Through Hands-On Innovation - Build proof-of-concept architectures and technical demonstrations that de-risk decisions and shorten the path from evaluation to production.

    Build Reusable Technical Content - Create scalable assets - sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations - that empower teams to implement best practices consistently.

    Forge Consensus Across Stakeholders - Articulate clear technical and strategic visions, resolve conflicts, and drive unified execution across cross-functional teams.

    Champion Customer Needs Back to AWS - Serve as the voice of your customer inside AWS, surfacing critical gaps and influencing service team roadmaps to benefit the broader financial services industry.

    Multiply Impact Through Reuse - Modularize solutions and leverage existing assets to reduce time-to-value and amplify impact across the customer community.

    A day in the life

    Your day spans internal alignment meetings, customer architecture discussions, and hands-on experimentation with AWS services to solve financial services challenges - real-time payments, fraud detection, core banking modernization. Afternoons bring solutioning sessions where you craft architectures that meet complex regulatory, security, and resiliency requirements, followed by building proof-of-concepts to de-risk high-stakes decisions. Between engagements, you"ll partner with AWS service teams to advocate for your customer"s needs and influence roadmap priorities. You"ll close your day evangelizing best practices across engineering, compliance, and C-suite stakeholders.

    About the team

    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.

    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.

    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) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, 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.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

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