Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Developer Transformation

Amazon is hiring a Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Developer Transformation for a remote role open to applicants in Japan. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this solutions architect role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, cloud native applications and solution architecture.
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AI in this role

Help developers adopt AI-driven tools and cloud-native applications on AWS as a Senior Solutions Architect.

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The mission of the Developer Transformation (DevTx) team is to help developers gain greater familiarity and confidence building modern, cloud-native applications that take full advantage of the latest AI-driven tools and AWS’s wide range of services. Through direct developer engagement, DevTx helps customers to address actual business problems and accelerated design, development and deployment of production quality cloud native application workloads.

As a DevTx Solution Architect (SA), you will help customers to innovate and transform their software development practices, applying modern patterns, the latest architectural best practices using the latest AI-native tools for developing and operating full-stack, cloud-native workloads. You will collaborate with customers and peers, develop content and enable the wider community to harness the power of AWS Cloud.

In this role, you will continuously sharpen and apply your expertise in programming languages, distributed systems, design patterns and the full software development life-cycle, to upskill developers and development teams on AWS cloud services, the third-party ecosystem and partner solutions.

Key job responsibilities
- Be an active member of the AWS Solution Architecture team by engaging in on-to-one and one-to-many application architecture and development discussions and workshops with developers, software engineers, enterprise/solution architects and CTOs
- Accelerating adoption of AWS in the professional developer communities by engaging through tech conferences, startup events, meetups, user groups and hackathons
- Help lead the direction for AWS developer events to make them best-in-class from a developer’s perspective, representing AWS through speaking, doing live demos and interacting with attendees
- Creating technical content such as reference applications, starter kits and patterns and practical guidance that will get developers excited about the potential of AWS as a development platform
- Contributing to a library of highly-reusable developer-focused artefacts such as demonstrations, sample code, blog posts, tutorials, and other modes of technical enablement
- Providing end-user feedback to AWS Product Management and Engineering teams based on the developer ‘voice of the customer‘. Participate in technical and design discussions with AWS technical teams to help speed customer adoption and ensure best practices during implementation

About the team
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 Developer Transformation (DevTx) team interacts with software development teams in leading companies to innovate and deliver mission-critical business solutions on top of AWS services.

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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
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Preferred qualifications

- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Knowledge of cloud computing, IT infrastructure, and different programming languages
- Hands-on experience with a selection of programming languages, tools and frameworks (e.g. C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust) and cloud-centric technology domains such as Serverless, Containers, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, high-performance databases (SQL and NoSQL), complex networking implementations, and highly secured workloads.

How we rate this

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Developer Transformation at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Developer Transformation is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in JP, 13, Tokyo and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 23, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Cloud Native ApplicationsSolution ArchitectureDeveloper EnablementTechnical Content CreationAWS

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Pay

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Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where cloud native applications was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where solution architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where developer enablement was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where technical content creation was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.

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