Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services – Amazon Web Services – Toronto, ON

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join their Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) practice in Toronto, Ontario. This is a senior-level technical role for someone who understands the complexities of the financial services industry and can translate cloud capabilities into real business value for enterprise customers.

In this role, you’ll work closely with FSI customers — from banks and insurers to fintech firms — guiding them through their cloud adoption journey and helping architect solutions that are scalable, secure, and resilient. You’ll be a trusted technical advisor while also collaborating with the AWS sales team to drive growth across a diverse customer base.

About the Role: Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services

As a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, your primary focus is building deep, lasting relationships with FSI customers and helping them design and implement cloud architectures that solve real business challenges. You’ll engage in everything from high-level strategic conversations with executives to hands-on technical deep-dives with engineering teams. You’ll help customers modernize their infrastructure, migrate workloads, and adopt AWS services in a way that aligns with their regulatory and operational requirements.

Beyond customer-facing work, you’ll contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives — writing white-papers, blogs, and internal resources — and act as a liaison between customers and AWS service engineering teams. You’ll also benefit from a comprehensive learning programme that includes self-paced courses, instructor-led training, and hands-on projects to keep your technical skills sharp and growing.

Benefits and Salary

The base salary range for this position in Toronto is $146,000 to $211,600 CAD annually. As part of Amazon’s total compensation package, additional elements may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. AWS offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, and basic life & AD&D), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and additional wellness resources. AWS also emphasises work-life balance, mentorship, career growth, and an inclusive team culture.

Responsibilities

This role sits at the intersection of technical expertise and business strategy. Day-to-day, you’ll be engaging directly with FSI customers to understand their challenges, designing cloud solutions, and partnering with internal AWS teams to make sure customers are set up for long-term success. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll be doing:

• Build deep relationships with FSI customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads and digital transformation initiatives
• Support revenue objectives through the adoption and migration of applications, software, and services onto the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and lead deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful cloud deployment
• Craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption
• Contribute to publications such as white-papers and blogs to scale knowledge across the broader AWS and customer community
• Act as a liaison between customers, AWS service engineering teams, and support to address customer needs efficiently
• Shape and execute strategy to build mindshare and broaden the use of the AWS platform across customer organisations

Requirements / Skills

The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep technical knowledge in cloud and infrastructure domains alongside strong communication skills that resonate with both technical teams and executive stakeholders. Experience in the financial services industry and a genuine curiosity for technology are key assets for this role.

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, or consulting on applications and infrastructure
• Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive-level stakeholders and clients
• Cloud Technology Certification (e.g. Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud DevOps Engineering) — preferred
• Experience architecting or deploying cloud/virtualisation solutions in enterprise customer environments — preferred
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base, and industry verticals — preferred
• Familiarity with large-scale automation and workflow management or equivalent tools — preferred

How to Apply

To apply for this Senior Solutions Architect position at AWS Canada, use the link below to visit the official job posting. Make sure your resume is up to date and reflects relevant cloud architecture and FSI industry experience before submitting.

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