AmazonSr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Compute AI Services
Amazon is hiring a Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Compute AI Services in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $231k-$313k a year and 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.
- Pay on this posting starts 37% higher than the typical solutions architect posting on Level.
- The posting mentions AWS, Generative AI and cloud architecture among its tools and skills.
- Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Lead a team of AI/ML Solutions Architects at AWS to drive cloud and generative AI adoption for enterprise customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of AI/ML Solutions Architects, including coaching managers and individual contributors, setting clear goals, and creating development plans that help team members grow in their careers.
- Define and execute the technical strategy for your organization, partnering with sales leadership and cross-functional teams to align AI/ML solutions with customer business objectives and drive adoption.
- Build and maintain relationships with customer technical leaders, guiding executive-level conversations and ensuring your team delivers architectures that address infrastructure, security, and application requirements.
- Evaluate and integrate generative AI tools and emerging cloud technologies into customer engagements, helping your team identify where new capabilities can accelerate customer outcomes.
- Establish scalable mechanisms for inspecting quality, operational performance, and cross-team collaboration, removing bottlenecks so your team can operate effectively and independently.
A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing a narrative your team prepared for a strategic customer engagement, providing feedback on how to sharpen the technical recommendations. Mid-morning, you join a leadership sync to discuss resourcing priorities and align on quarterly objectives. After lunch, you coach one of your managers through a complex stakeholder conversation, then review architectural proposals your team is presenting later in the week. Throughout the day, you balance strategic planning with hands-on guidance, ensuring your organization stays focused on what matters most for customers.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
Preferred qualifications
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
- Experience in people management and stakeholder management
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, and contributing to open source
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 231,200.00 - 312,800.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, Compute AI Services 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.
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.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Pay
- This job starts at
- $231k
- Typical solutions architect job
- $169k
This posting starts 37% above the typical solutions architect job. See solutions architect jobs
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where cloud architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where team leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai ml strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
- What's a project where you used AWS hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Generative AI in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Cloud Architecture, Team Leadership, AI ML Strategy, AWS, and Generative AI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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