Amazon
Principal Security Solutions Architect , AWS Financial Services
$183K–$272K
Seattle, WA +4 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Dec 22, 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
Houston, TX - Experience
- 10+ years in specified technology domains.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
About the job
Advises major financial services customers on AWS security, risk, and compliance, helping them design secure cloud solutions and build executive relationships.
What you'll do
- Address customer security, risk, and compliance concerns and participate in architecture discussions.
- Help customers identify controls, establish assurance and automated compliance, and support auditors’ understanding of AWS arrangements.
- Build executive relationships and create technical content and internal plans to improve security and controls knowledge.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level stakeholders, through training, workshops, or publications.
- Experience developing technology security solutions and security roadmaps for cloud transformations; proven ability to explain security concepts to executives.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or large-scale automation and workflow management.
- Experience with cloud architecture or migration, and security areas such as threat modeling, identity management, application security, or incident response.
Pay
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Tools
AWS, cloud computing
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