Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture

Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will partner with some of the world's largest financial services companies, AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a small set of systemically important global financial services customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help these organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud‑based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Technical Leadership & Executive Advisory

• Own program‑level technical strategy for systemically important financial institutions’ AWS adoption across multiple lines of business, including capital markets, wealth management, and institutional securities.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to senior technology leadership and C‑suite executives, leading technical and business strategy discussions that influence their technology vision.
• Architect solutions to significantly complex challenges involving large‑scale distributed systems, real‑time trading platforms, risk management systems, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Create exemplary reference architectures that become patterns for other global financial institutions.
• Drive alignment across customer's technology, business, risk, and compliance organizations while influencing long‑term technology roadmap and architectural standards.

Thought Leadership & Industry Impact

• Recognized as a technical thought leader in financial services cloud architecture, leading creation of whitepapers, reference architectures, and industry best practices.
• Speak at premier industry events with significant educational impact.
• Mentor and develop other Solutions Architects, providing technical assessments for Principal SA promotions.
• Create mechanisms, frameworks, and best practices that enable organizational scale.

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Design large‑scale, multi‑region architectures addressing complex requirements for performance, security, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead technical due diligence for mission‑critical workload migrations (trading systems, risk engines, core banking platforms).
• Ensure solutions meet stringent regulatory requirements (SEC, FINRA, OCC, Fed) and industry standards.
• Drive adoption of advanced AWS capabilities including AI/ML, GenAI, real‑time analytics, and event‑driven architectures.
• Working backwards from customers, identify gaps in AWS products and services, and work with relevant product teams to address them.

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in technology domain areas such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement.
• 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.
• Knowledge of large‑scale automation and workflow management.
• Knowledge of database design and implementation.
• Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills with comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernising customer requirements to the cloud.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA).

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.