Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports (MEGS) Industry Business Unit. In this role, you will be a trusted technical advisor to publishers and other media companies, helping them reimagine their workflows using AWS cloud technologies. The role requires approximately 30% travel (including international).

Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement: Work backward from the customer to drive adoption of AWS services for media and entertainment workloads, with specific focus on publishing use cases

Technical Leadership: Understand and anticipate customer business needs, accelerating their ability to innovate by building working prototypes and industry-specific solutions

Architecture & Design: Run technical workshops and advise customers on architectural decisions for cloud-based media solutions

Best Practices: Educate customers to ensure their solutions follow AWS best practices for scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence in media environments

Thought Leadership: Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, and blog posts focused on media technology

External Communication: Participate in industry conferences and events, sharing knowledge with the broader AWS solutions architect community and media industry

Product Feedback: Drive customer requirements alignment with AWS service teams' roadmaps, acting as the voice of media and entertainment customers

A day in the life
Your days blend technical depth with strategic advisory work across publishers and other media companies. You'll architect cloud solutions, build proof-of-concepts with AWS services, collaborate with account teams on customer workshops, and share field feedback with AWS product teams. Throughout the week, you balance hands-on customer engagements with thought leadership—mentoring junior SAs, presenting at industry conferences, and documenting architectural patterns.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the 8 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.

About the team
Your team is a group of experienced solutions architects, all with deep backgrounds in media and entertainment technology, located across the world. Geographically targeted to customers but globally collaborative, the team shares best practices and real-world experiences to innovate for our customers.