Are you a customer-obsessed leader with deep expertise in Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence? Do you have the strategic vision and business acumen to shape multi-year AI transformation programs for the world's largest enterprises? Do you thrive at the intersection of novel technology and complex business challenges? Join
AWS Specialists & Partners for Industries (
ASPI) organization within the Data & AI Specialists team for Automotive & Manufacturing as a Principal Solutions Architect, requiring exceptional non-formal leadership,
cross-functional orchestration, and strategic impact at the most senior customer and
AWS leadership levels. The
ASPI organization is responsible for driving revenue and accelerating adoption of cloud and partner services across our most strategic global customers. We work backwards from our customers’ most complex and business-critical challenges to develop and execute
go-to-market plans that transform ideas into scalable, high-impact businesses.
ASPI teams include business development specialists and specialized solution architects. As part of
ASPI, you will contribute across the full lifecycle of
AWS customer initiatives – from shaping new service and solution concepts to accelerating adoption of established offerings. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional customer outcomes, and collaborating seamlessly across
AWS as #OneTeam.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will be the senior technical authority helping our largest customers design and adopt modern data and analytics platforms on
AWS.
Analytics Architecture Design: Provide deep technical expertise across the
AWS analytics portfolio — including Amazon
Redshift, Amazon
Athena, Amazon EMR,
AWS Glue, Amazon
Kinesis, Amazon
OpenSearch, Amazon QuickSight, and the broader data ecosystem — to guide complex customer engagements from vision through implementation.
Data Platform Strategy: Partner with customers to design and implement modern data platform architectures — centralized data lakes, data mesh patterns, data products, metadata management, and data governance frameworks — that enable trusted, self-service analytics across the enterprise.
Agentic AI Enablement: Design the data foundation that makes enterprise data agent-ready — building the context, semantic, and ontology layers (knowledge graphs, business metadata, semantic models, governed catalogs) that give AI agents accurate, trusted business context. Bridge
data engineering and AI teams so agentic and analytical workloads can reason over the same governed data estate at scale.
Solution Design & Deployment: Design and deploy scalable, high-performance data warehousing, data lake, and real-time analytics solutions tailored to each customer's business requirements.
Field Enablement: Create reusable enablement materials and reference architectures that help the broader SA population integrate
AWS analytics solutions into customer architectures.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with account teams, specialist sellers, Professional Services, and partners to drive analytics adoption and deliver comprehensive, end-to-end data solutions.
Thought Leadership & Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives and technical leaders, represent
AWS analytics at industry and field events, and channel field insights back to service teams to shape the analytics roadmap.
About the team
About
AWSDiverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job 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.
- 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
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of open table formats, especially
Iceberg- Understanding of data foundation principles supporting agentic systems
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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.
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, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually