Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture

Principal Solutions Architect, GFS Solutions Architecture Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will partner with some of the world's largest financial services companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. You will help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. Key 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 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. Basic Qualifications 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience. Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement. Experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing 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 Qualifications 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. Base salary range: $201,000 – $272,000 annually. Benefits include health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) are part of the comprehensive compensation package. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit for more information. #J-18808-Ljbffr