Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise – Retail, CPG and Journey & Hospitality – Job ID: 10460499

Description

AWS Canada drives adoption of the AWS cloud throughout Retail prospects, enabling organizations to innovate and remodel their enterprise. We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to function a reputable technical chief and strategic advisor, serving to prospects architect options to advanced enterprise and know-how challenges.

In this position, you’ll companion with senior buyer leaders, gross sales, and cross-functional AWS groups to affect long-term know-how technique and speed up transformational cloud adoption. You will design end-to-end architectures, lead cross-team resolution supply, and create reusable property that profit prospects throughout the group. This position gives the chance to drive strategic impression whereas working with applied sciences and fixing a few of our prospects’ most advanced challenges.

Key job obligations
– Architect extensible, reusable, and operationally wonderful cloud options to advanced migration, modernization, and innovation challenges
– Build and personal strategic relationships with senior buyer leaders throughout enterprise areas, understanding their trade context and enterprise goals to affect long-term know-how technique and proactively determine alternatives that assist enterprise outcomes
– Provide technical management throughout inner and cross-functional groups to ship options, constructing consensus on technical approaches and negotiating architectural trade-offs to drive measurable enterprise impression
– Develop and ship technical content material comparable to workshops, prototypes, and displays and converse at occasions to assist prospects consider and undertake new applied sciences
– Advocate for purchasers by figuring out product gaps and have requests, and work with AWS service groups to assist them perceive buyer wants

A day within the life
Your day as a Senior Solutions Architect blends strategic buyer engagement, technical management, and organizational impression. You’ll meet with senior buyer stakeholders to know their enterprise technique and affect their know-how route, architect options to advanced, multi-faceted challenges, and construct prototypes and reusable architectures that different Solutions Architects can leverage. You lead cross-team collaboration to ship buyer outcomes, create thought management content material that educates the broader neighborhood, and mentor teammates on fixing difficult issues. Throughout the day, you stability deep technical work with strategic affect, serving to prospects and your group navigate ambiguity and make the fitting long-term trade-offs with confidence.

About the group
AWS Canada helps prospects throughout the nation, serving to them undertake cloud applied sciences and speed up innovation. The Solutions Architecture group works carefully with prospects and inner companions to design sensible, scalable options tailor-made to every group’s wants.

We worth curiosity, possession, and steady studying, and are motivated by the chance to assist prospects resolve significant issues and construct what’s subsequent on AWS. At AWS, we stay by the precept: Work exhausting. Have enjoyable. Make historical past.

Senior Solutions Architects are technical leaders who mix deep experience with enterprise acumen, serving to prospects navigate advanced transformations whereas growing the following technology of Solutions Architects.

Basic Qualifications

– 10+ years of particular know-how area areas (e.g. software program improvement, cloud computing, programs engineering, infrastructure, safety, networking, knowledge & analytics) expertise
– Experience speaking throughout technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, together with coaching, workshops, publications
– 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in purposes and infrastructures expertise
– Proven expertise architecting and guiding implementation of advanced, end-to-end options in distributed programs and cloud architectures
– Familiarity with trendy architectural patterns comparable to microservices, serverless, and event-driven programs, with means to adapt and lengthen these patterns for customer-specific wants

Preferred Qualifications

– Experience architecting/working options constructed on any cloud service supplier like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, and so forth.
– Experience within the retail sector
– Experience writing high-quality technical content material for technical audiences (e.g., engineers, builders, scientists)
– Proven observe document of making reusable technical property (reference architectures, frameworks, code samples, automation instruments) that different groups have efficiently adopted
– Experience designing and implementing advanced AI/ML options, together with generative AI, agentic purposes, MLOps patterns, and RAG architectures
– Thought management by talking at trade conferences, writing technical weblog posts/white papers, or contributing to open-source tasks
– Experience with scripting, automation, and software program improvement in a number of languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, and so forth.)

Amazon is an equal alternative employer and doesn’t discriminate on the idea of protected veteran standing, incapacity, or different legally protected standing.

Our inclusive tradition empowers Amazonians to ship the very best outcomes for our prospects. If you might have a incapacity and want a office lodging or adjustment in the course of the software and hiring course of, together with assist for the interview or onboarding course of, please go to for extra info. If the nation/area you’re making use of in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base wage vary for this place is listed beneath. As a complete compensation firm, Amazon’s bundle could embody different parts comparable to sign-on funds and restricted inventory models (RSUs). Final compensation will likely be decided primarily based on components together with expertise, {qualifications}, and placement. Amazon gives complete advantages together with medical health insurance (medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, prescription, fundamental life & AD&D insurance coverage), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time without work, and different sources to enhance well being and well-being. We thank all candidates for his or her curiosity, nevertheless solely these interviewed will likely be suggested as to hiring standing.

CAN, BC, Vancouver – 169,400.00 – 254,200.00 CAD yearly