Amazon · 1 month ago
Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture
New York, New York, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$164K/yr - $284K/yr
15+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist for the role of Principal Solutions Architect. This role involves partnering with major financial services companies to develop scalable cloud architectures and drive AWS adoption, while also providing strategic technical leadership and mentoring others in the field.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
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
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
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 your customers, identify gaps in AWS products and services, and work with relevant product teams to address them
Qualification
Required
15+ 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 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
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
Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
Benefits
Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22803)
2024 (21175)
2023 (19057)
2022 (24088)
2021 (12233)
2020 (14881)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
Recent News
2026-01-11
Company data provided by crunchbase