Senior Solutions Architect – Amazon Web Services – Vancouver, BC

AWS Canada is on the hunt for a Senior Solutions Architect to join its Independent Software Vendors (ISV) team — with positions available in both Vancouver, BC and Montreal, QC. This is a senior-level role at the intersection of deep technical expertise and strategic business influence, designed for architects who thrive on solving complex, multi-faceted cloud challenges at scale.

Day to day, you’ll be engaging with senior customer stakeholders, shaping long-term technology strategy, designing end-to-end cloud architectures, and building reusable assets that other Solutions Architects across the organization can leverage. If you’re energized by balancing hands-on technical work with meaningful business impact, this role is worth a close look.

About the Role: Senior Solutions Architect, ISV Canada

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, you’ll serve as both a credible technical leader and a strategic advisor to ISV customers navigating complex cloud migration, modernization, and innovation journeys. You’ll partner with senior leaders across customer organizations, AWS sales teams, and cross-functional groups to design architectures that are extensible, scalable, and operationally sound. This isn’t a purely technical role — it requires the ability to communicate architectural trade-offs with confidence to both technical and executive audiences.

You’ll also be expected to contribute to the broader community through thought leadership content, workshops, presentations, and events. Internally, you’ll mentor teammates, build consensus on technical approaches, and advocate for customers by surfacing product gaps and feature requests to AWS service teams. Fluency in both French and English is required for candidates applying to the Quebec (Montreal) location.

Benefits and Salary

Amazon offers a comprehensive total compensation package for this role. The base salary range is $146,000 to $211,600 CAD annually for both Vancouver and Montreal locations, with final compensation determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Beyond base salary, the package may include sign-on payments and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and additional wellness resources.

Responsibilities

This role blends deep technical architecture work with strategic customer engagement and organizational leadership. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll be expected to drive measurable outcomes across both the customer’s technology roadmap and AWS’s internal community. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Design and architect extensible, reusable, and operationally excellent cloud solutions for complex migration, modernization, and innovation challenges
• Build strategic relationships with senior customer leaders across business areas, understanding industry context and business objectives to influence long-term technology strategy
• Provide technical leadership across internal and cross-functional teams, building consensus on technical approaches and negotiating architectural trade-offs to drive measurable business impact
• Develop and deliver technical content such as workshops, prototypes, and presentations, and speak at events to help customers evaluate and adopt new technologies
• Advocate for customers by identifying product gaps and feature requests, and collaborate with AWS service teams to ensure customer needs are well understood
• Mentor teammates on solving challenging problems and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing
• Create thought leadership content and reusable architectures that other Solutions Architects across the organization can leverage

Requirements / Skills

The right candidate for this role brings a combination of broad technical depth, proven experience with large-scale cloud deployments, and the strategic communication skills to influence at the executive level. Amazon Web Services values architects who can navigate ambiguity and make sound long-term trade-offs with confidence.

• 5+ years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructure
• Deep technical expertise across multiple domains including cloud architecture, data and analytics, AI/ML, software development, security, and networking
• Familiarity with modern architectural patterns such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems, with the ability to adapt these patterns for customer-specific needs
• French and English fluency required for the Montreal (Quebec) location due to the global and interprovincial nature of the role
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including designing and deploying complex production workloads at scale (preferred)
• Experience with AI/ML solutions including generative AI, agentic applications, MLOps patterns, and RAG architectures (preferred)
• Scripting and software development proficiency in multiple languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java (preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred)

How to Apply

To apply, visit the official Amazon job posting using the link below. Make sure your resume is up to date and tailored to highlight your cloud architecture experience before submitting.

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