Principal Solutions Architect, Financial Services , Financial Services Industry

Principal Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Financial Services Industry

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS is looking for experienced Solutions Architects to help advise our Financial Services customers on how to best adopt and leverage the value of AWS technologies. This is an ideal role for someone with deep experience in the FS industry, expert knowledge of FS applications and infrastructure, and a solid understanding of how cloud services can help FS customers transform their data centers, and more quickly develop innovative industry solutions.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the Financial Services industry team, and play a key role in executing go‑to‑market strategies and programs at a country or area level.
• Identify FS customer needs specific to your area or country; engage directly with customers and account teams to determine business needs, and help define and develop industry solutions.
• Help coach SAs who are directly supporting FS customers as part of the AWS account teams, and gather and provide feedback to engineering teams on how to help FS customers more easily adopt AWS services.
• Coach senior engineers or solutions architects; work directly with customers; and help define and deploy secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions in Financial Services.
• Travel up to 30% may be required; this will be discussed at interview stage.

About the team

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry‑specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end‑to‑end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences and at C‑level, including training, workshops, publications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of large‑scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent.
• Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills with comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit Amazon accommodations for more information.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company; depending on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be offered in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits. For more information, please visit Amazon employee benefits .

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