Drimva

Amazon

Principal Solutions Architect, Retail, Consumer Goods & Restaurants, AWS

$183K–$247K

Seattle, WA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Location
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Experience
10+ years in specific technology domain areas.
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.

About the job

Leads technical strategy and cloud architecture for strategic AWS customers in retail, consumer goods, and restaurants, while influencing AWS platform direction and mentoring Solutions Architects.

What you'll do

  • Own multi-year technical strategy for customer portfolios or technology domains; guide senior customer stakeholders on architecture and investment decisions.
  • Define reusable reference architectures and standards, and share customer needs to influence the AWS roadmap.
  • Mentor senior Solutions Architects, strengthen team technical depth, and contribute to hiring.

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 developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
  • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large-scale automation and workflow management, or database design and implementation.
  • Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud; executive-facing presentation and whiteboarding skills.

Pay

182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually (base salary); 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AWS, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Serverless, Container based architectures, Analytics, Big Data, DevOps

AI focus

Defines or invents cloud-native reference architectures for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning use cases.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)