Sr. Solutions Architect, Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports (MEGS), Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports (MEGS)

AWS is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports (MEGS) Industry Business Unit. You'll support the Corporate Enterprise Technology and Data organization of one of the world's largest entertainment companies as part of a dedicated AWS Account team.

You will be responsible for educating customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the M&E, Games, and Sports industries. You'll provide hands-on architectural guidance and design technical solutions that include AWS services, open-source, and Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partners. You'll work with customers remotely and in person, sharing your expertise and insights. This role involves domestic and potential international travel.

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• Key job responsibilities
• - Architect and deliver innovative, customer-obsessed solutions leveraging AWS services and partner offerings to modernize business-critical enterprise and shared-services workloads on AWS.
• - Engage with customers, partners, and industry events to inspire and educate on the transformative potential of AWS solutions, and drive thought leadership.
• - Build trusted relationships across corporate IT, security, and vendor-management leadership to strengthen strategic partnerships and inform multi-cloud governance.
• - Create architectural guidance, demos, POCs, and executive presentations that accelerate cloud adoption.
• - Educate IT operations, reliability engineering, and security teams on AWS and GenAI capabilities.
• - Communicate clearly on data center consolidation, FinOps, security, and lifecycle automation, positioning AWS as the platform of choice for lowering TCO and improving operational agility.

• 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 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.

Basic 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 architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• - Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
• - Experience solving problems with technology in the Media & Entertainment Industry
• - Experience using AI-assisted development tools in academic or professional settings
• - Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
• - Experience leading large enterprise transformations with AWS/cloud services
• - Knowledge of production agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and enterprise deployment patterns.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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