Senior Networking Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries Customer Acceleration Team

About the role

Are you passionate about helping organizations achieve transformative business value through innovative networking solutions? Do you combine deep technical expertise with practical problem-solving skills to optimize how enterprises leverage cloud networking? AWS Industries is seeking a networking expert who can identify and architect solutions while supporting teams and contributing to our networking practice. As a trusted advisor to your customers, you'll enable their success through modern networking strategies that drive business agility, innovation, and performance.

As a Senior Networking Specialist Solutions Architect, you'll be the go-to networking expert for key customers in our portfolio. This role combines hands-on solution design with strategic thinking - you'll deliver networking solutions that support customer objectives, provide customer insights to product teams, and contribute to best practices within the networking community.

You'll collaborate with senior stakeholders, Business Development, Professional Services, Customer Solutions Managers, Partner teams, and account teams to tackle challenging networking initiatives. Join us and experience the unique opportunity to combine the resources of a Fortune-5 company with the dynamic atmosphere of a startup, making a lasting impact on how businesses operate in the cloud.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead complex networking engagements from architectural design through implementation for key accounts
• Develop solutions for customers' hybrid connectivity, security, and networking scalability requirements
• Create networking designs and recommendations that align with customers' business objectives
• Contribute to thought leadership by delivering internal and customer-facing content
• Guide and support Solutions Architects on networking concepts and best practices
• Provide customer feedback to product teams to help inform networking roadmap priorities
• Contribute to reusable architectural patterns that help accelerate adoption of AWS networking technologies
• Stay current on emerging networking technologies and their applications in enterprise environments

A day in the life

• AWS values diverse experiences.
• Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the 8 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

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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 in the cloud.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
• Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

• USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually