Amazon Startup Solutions Architect Startups 

Canada, Ontario, Old Toronto 

600461564

We are looking for technical builders who love the idea of working with early stage startups to help them as they grow. In this role, you’ll work directly with a variety of interesting customers and help them make the best (and sometimes the most pragmatic) technical decisions along the way. You’ll have a chance to build enduring relationships with these companies and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.As well as spending time working directly with customers, you’ll also get plenty of time to “sharpen the saw” and keep your skills fresh. We have more than 175 services across a range of different categories and it’s important that we can help startups take advantages of the right ones. You’ll also play an important role as an advocate with our product teams to make sure we are building the right products for the startups you work with. And for the customers you don’t get to work with on a 1:1 basis you’ll get the chance to share your knowledge more broadly by working on technical content and presenting at events.Key job responsibilitiesA day in the life
**A Day in the Life:**As a Startup Solutions Architect, you'll partner directly with co-founders and CTOs to architect scalable cloud solutions that accelerate their growth. Your day involves evaluating technical requirements across AI, containers, and serverless architectures, leading hands-on workshops with engineering teams, and designing migration strategies with Partners. You'll collaborate with field engineers and product teams to address critical startup challenges: removing scaling bottlenecks, optimizing costs while maintaining innovation velocity, and translating startup feedback into product improvements. Your strategic guidance helps startups overcome technical barriers, reduce time-to-market, and build resilient architectures that fuel their rocket ship trajectory.About the team
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- 8+ Yrs of experience in design/implementation/management of complex distributed IT applications and infrastructure
- Solid experience in infrastructure (compute, storage, network), application, or database architectures
- Good understanding of modern technology stack, using serverless, containers, data and GenAI
- Awareness of software development tools, methodologies and cloud computing benefits, concepts
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across internal and external organizations

- Technical degree; Computer Science, Engineering or Math background highly desired, or equivalent work experience
- Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies
- AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- Experience with software/technology in a customer facing role
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on AWS
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers