Solutions Architect, AWS Industries, Energy & Utilities

Imagine being a part of a team where your ideas can help reshape the future of the Energy industry and improve the lives of many. Here at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you'll work with a talented & inclusive team while using the latest technologies to help our customers accelerate the global energy transition. We are looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a deep understanding of the Oil & Gas industry. You will have a business mindset, technical depth, and have strong interpersonal skills to build the future with us as a Solutions Architect - supporting one or some of the largest Energy companies in the world. You will work with customer line of business owners to solve their biggest business problems and help them attain new levels of performance. You will leverage AWS’ leading AI and cloud services to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address business problems and accelerate the customer cloud journey. These solutions always have the customer and their experience at the center of everything we do. You will adeptly interact, communicate and partner with other teams at AWS such as product, marketing, and professional services, and represent your team to executive management. You possess a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. Your dynamism, creativity and passion for excellence will make a positive impact with your customer. If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while inspiring the impossible, come build the future with us. Key job responsibilities As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures. Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services. You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others. In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences). A day in the life There is no typical day. A representative week includes leading a 2-hour architecture review with the customer's platform engineering team on data lake modernization, driving deep technical discussions on design trade-offs. You'll spend a day on-site at the customer's office conducting discovery sessions with new business units, having lunch with the VP of Digital to discuss their AI roadmap and influence strategic direction. Mid-week, you'll build and refine a generative AI demo using RAG architecture for automated drilling report summarization, sync with your account team to align on messaging, and brief specialist teams on complex workloads. You'll present Well-Architected reviews to the customer's cloud center of excellence, write competitive displacement patterns for peer Solutions Architects, participate in hiring debriefs, and lead community sessions to share reference architectures that scale beyond your direct delivery. About the team The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their AI and cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 (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. Minimum qualifications - 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 - 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients - Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers - Experience architecting and operating in large Enterprise IT environments, including expertise with corporate identity management systems, enterprise authentication frameworks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), IT Service Management (ITSM), change management processes, and enterprise security controls. Preferred qualifications - 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience - Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies - Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers - Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures - Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage - Experience designing IoT architectures for industrial settings, including expertise with sensor networks, telemetry systems, equipment monitoring platforms, and integration patterns for legacy operational 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, TX, Houston - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually