Amazon Principal Solutions Architect 

United States, California, Sacramento 

35812522

As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will serve as a strategic advisor across California State Government, providing technical leadership guidance and developing market-specific technical strategies. You will be responsible for informing AWS senior leaders' business and technical decisions, leveraging your broad market awareness to anticipate industry trends and customer needs. Your impact will extend beyond individual customers, as you will support broader organizational initiatives across multiple agencies.
In this role, your creativity and strategic technical experience will support customers at an executive level to solve complex business challenges and drive transformational change. You will be a thought leader, initiating the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures while evangelizing AWS technology.This role will contribute to shaping the future of cloud computing technology across California State Government.
Key job responsibilities
* As a Principal Solutions Architect, you are a technical leader and strategic influencer for customers and the organization
* You combine strong business acumen with deep technical skills to architect solutions to significantly complex problems
* You operate in highly ambiguous environments where business objectives, opportunities, technology strategy, and solution design are undefined
* You leverage extensive experience and industry knowledge to influence long-term strategic direction
* You identify both immediate and future risks and constraints, advising customers on trade-offs to meet long-term goals
* You build consensus and alignment across diverse teams to deliver impactful solutions
* You develop and mentor other Solutions Architects, ensuring the continued growth of the communityThis position is based in Sacramento, CA and may require up to 30% travel.
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- 12+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 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

- 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
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers