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Description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

AWS is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to provide expert guidance to our Financial Services customers. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping Financial Services organizations optimize their adoption and leverage of AWS technologies.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in the Financial Services industry, comprehensive knowledge of Financial Services applications and infrastructure, and a strong understanding of how cloud services can empower customers to Modernize their applications, migrate their data centers to AWS, and Accelerate the development of innovative industry solutions.

As the Senior Solutions Architect, you will leverage your domain expertise to architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions that address the unique needs of Financial Services organizations. You will collaborate closely with customers to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, and compliance constraints, and then recommend the optimal AWS services and best practices to meet their goals. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect who is passionate about driving cloud transformation in the Financial Services sector.


Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement:
- Build strategic relationships with Financial Services customers
- Understand their business challenges, technical needs, and compliance requirements
- Deliver consultative guidance for cloud transformation initiatives

Technical Leadership:
- Guide optimal adoption of AWS services
- Design solutions for application modernization and cloud migration
- Architect secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions
- Lead implementation of industry-specific innovations

Solution Design & Implementation:
- Partner across teams to design and optimize cloud infrastructure
- Ensure solutions align with Financial Services compliance requirements
- Drive best practices in security, reliability, and performance

Business Enablement
- Help customers maximize AWS platform capabilities
- Align technical solutions with business objectives
- Enable successful cloud adoption through proven methodologies

Technical Excellence:
- Maintain expertise in latest AWS services and features
- Share knowledge and insights across customer organizations
- Contribute to AWS Financial Services industry solutions

A day in the life
AWS AGS 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.

As an Senior Solutions Architect, you will manage your time to support our customers and account teams with your detailed understanding of AWS Services. Where a customer's need is not your forte, you will reach out to SMEs via AWS internal mechanisms while retaining ownership of the customer's inquiry. As a Solution Architect, you will go beyond the technical solution architecture and work with the account teams, specialists and partners to deliver a practical solution that will accelerate the customers business outcome. Having successfully delivered for our customers you will scale your impact through your Thought Leadership and having gleaned customer signals and feedback to improve our services you will work with the Service teams to make AWS products and services better then they are today. You will also contribute to uplifting your knowledge through AWS' broad catalogue of accreditation and education opportunities.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.