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Solutions Architect III - AMZ10362479

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Pittsburgh, PAFull-time$154–208K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$154–208K/yr
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Amazon Web Services seeks a Solutions Architect III to advise customers on cloud architecture and AWS adoption. The role connects customers with service engineering and support, assesses application portfolios and migration feasibility, and supports building, migrating, and deploying applications on AWS. It also includes briefing executives, authoring customer-facing publications, sharing best practices, and defining cloud strategies and deployments with technical and business stakeholders.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed ApplicationsPublic Cloud EnvironmentsOn-Premises Virtualized EnvironmentsC++PerlPythonJavaDatabase ArchitecturePerformance TuningBig DataHadoop

Qualifications

Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Related Field or Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Related Field Plus Five Years' ExperienceOne Year of Related ExperienceOne Year of Distributed Applications ExperienceOne Year of Cloud or Virtualized Environment ExperienceOne Year of Database and Big Data or Hadoop ExperienceTravel Up to 25%

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

Description

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.

Offered Position: Solutions Architect III

Job Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Job Number: AMZ10362479

Position Responsibilities:

Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support. Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and access migration feasibility. Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions. Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively. Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform. Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting the AWS and define future platform requirement for on-boarding and migration to AWS. Author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers. Share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community. Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project manager, directors, and C-level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments. Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Position Requirements:

Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Database Administrator, Support Engineer, Systems Engineer or another related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications; (2) architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on-premises virtualized environments using C++, Perl, Python, or Java; and (3) experience with database architecture, performance tuning, and either Big Data or Hadoop. Domestic and/or international travel up to 25% to perform role responsibilities may be required.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $153,600/year to $207,800/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000

Basic Qualifications

Position Requirements:

Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Database Administrator, Support Engineer, Systems Engineer or another related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications; (2) architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on-premises virtualized environments using C++, Perl, Python, or Java; and (3) experience with database architecture, performance tuning, and either Big Data or Hadoop. Domestic and/or international travel up to 25% to perform role responsibilities may be required.#0000

Preferred Qualifications

Please see job description and the position requirements above.

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 8,177 open Solutions Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$154–208K/yr
  • Pennsylvania median$130–248K/yr209 salary ranges
  • US median$141–244K/yr7,273 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $181K, is 5% below the Pennsylvania median midpoint ($190K) — in the middle half of Solutions Architect salary ranges in Pennsylvania.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 240 open Solutions Architect jobs in Pennsylvania and 8,177 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Solutions Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 7,333 postings).
Education
3,132 of the 8,177 open Solutions Architect jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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