Solutions Architect

Amazon is hiring a Solutions Architect in Oslo, Norway. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this solutions architect role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Bedrock, SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
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AI in this role

Solutions architect helping customers build scalable cloud and AI applications using AWS services like Bedrock and SageMaker.

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At Amazon, we are continuously striving to be the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS have been helping over one million customers in over 190 countries to deliver flexibility, scalability and reliability across their organizations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented, bright and driven individuals who work hard, have fun and make history.

As a Solution Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's services (like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS, etc) within strategic accounts across Norway.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects. The candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business, product, and technical challenges.

Key job responsibilities
You will manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.

You will also:

- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- You will build the technical relationship with customers and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
- Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
- You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. whitepapers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).
- Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching and mentoring others.
- Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.

A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to work with account managers to help customers accelerate their cloud implementation to modernize their business on AWS. Working with these customers, you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, security, and more using both native and partner solutions.

Our teams focus on understanding customer key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical recommendation to the customer with a goal of designing a robust cloud architecture that can scale as their business requires.

Basic qualifications

- Experience in design/ implementation/ consulting/ devops experience with distributed applications
- 4+ years experience in infrastructure or software architecture, with knowledge in associated technology areas such as databases and networking.
- Experience in pre-sales engineering or solutions architecture for technology/software sales
- Fluency in Norwegian and English
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Extensive design/implementation/consulting/devops experience with distributed applications

Preferred qualifications

- Technical degree in Computer Science
- Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions for cloud.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Criminal certificate is required.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

How we rate this

Solutions Architect 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

Solutions Architect is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in NO, Oslo.
The job was posted on June 25, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

Typical solutions architect job: $169k

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What's a project where you used Bedrock hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used SageMaker in your day-to-day work.

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