Principal Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts; Bay Area), Strategic Accounts

Position: Principal Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts (Bay Area), Strategic Accounts
Description

Are you a technical leader who thrives on transforming complex challenges into elegant solutions? Join us as a Principal Solutions Architect supporting a trail blazer in the travel and hospitality space. In this strategic role, you'll serve as a trusted technical advisor, guiding the customer through their technology transformation journey while setting technical strategy that drives measurable business outcomes.

As a Principal Solutions Architect, you'll leverage your technical expertise across multiple domains to influence customer technical strategies and roadmaps. You'll combine business acumen with deep technical knowledge to architect solutions that address significantly complex problems. This role requires someone who can operate with complete independence in ambiguous environments, decomposing complex challenges into straightforward solutions, and establishing yourself as a thought leader in the industry.

Key job responsibilities

Own and drive technical strategy for travel and hospitality customers, influencing their long-term business and technology decisions by demonstrating how adopting new technological capabilities can impact their business outcomes

Design and deliver large-scale architectures and technical solutions that solve significantly complex problems, creating new patterns and methodologies that can be leveraged across the organization

Serve as a trusted advisor to customer leadership, asking strategic questions they aren't asking themselves and guiding them through technology transformation journeys

Lead cross-organizational initiatives requiring consensus and collaboration among many teams for successful solution delivery, effectively influencing and force-multiplying

Mentor other Solutions Architects, sharing expertise and best practices while fostering growth and development within the team

A day in the life

Your day begins with a strategic planning session with your travel and hospitality customer's technical leadership team, where you're guiding discussions around their cloud architecture roadmap. Throughout the day, you'll transition between stakeholder meetings to gather critical business requirements, technical deep-dive sessions to solve complex architectural challenges, and internal collaborative sessions where you mentor fellow Solutions Architects. You'll spend time researching emerging technologies and crafting architectural recommendations that balance business needs with technical feasibility.

About the team

Our team partners with a leading travel and hospitality organization to transform their customer experiences through innovative technology solutions. We work at the intersection of business and technology, helping our customers navigate complex challenges and capitalize on new opportunities in an ever-changing industry. As trusted advisors, we influence technical strategy and implementation, driving business outcomes through technology excellence. We're passionate about solving complex problems and creating scalable, reliable architectures that enable our customers to deliver exceptional experiences to their travelers and guests.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent

• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent

• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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