This role at AWS Applied AI Solutions focuses on defining and building foundational AI infrastructure for agentic and ML-driven applications. The team aims to empower businesses by integrating human and AI capabilities for intelligent operations. This position offers a high-impact opportunity to influence the future of enterprise AI and requires strong technical leadership. The architect will work on creating scalable systems that support diverse applications across various industries.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale projects in software development, infrastructure, architecture, compute, or networking.
• 8+ years of design, architecture, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications running on cloud.
• Technical expertise in designing, architecting, and building complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience improving software development lifecycle processes, best practices, operations, and automation.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineering communities on complex technical challenges.
• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and agile development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of design, architecture, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications on AWS.
• 3+ years working directly with enterprise customers to assess needs, identify solutions, and resolve technical disagreements.
• Experience with big data systems, analytics, containerised microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience shipping business-grade AI solutions and agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience building and iterating on AI/ML-driven products, including prototypes through production systems.

• Architect and drive the technical vision for next-generation AI infrastructure and platforms that enable Agentic AI capabilities across our service portfolio.
• Design the foundational systems, frameworks, and intelligent agents that make human-AI collaboration intuitive, trustworthy, and productive.
• Build highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems that seamlessly scale from small businesses to global enterprises.
• Define technical standards and best practices for integrating AI capabilities across diverse domains.
• Create extensible architectures that support expansion into new business applications.
• Lead the design of enterprise-grade systems that solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale.
• Architect systems that integrate human and AI workforces for next-generation business operations.
• Design solutions for high-volume workflow optimisation and process automation.
• Develop APIs and integration patterns for seamless interoperability across AI-powered applications.
• Drive technical innovation and establish reusable patterns and frameworks that accelerate teams across the organisation.
• Drive a strong engineering excellence and operational culture across all products and teams.
• Mentor and guide senior and principal engineers while solving complex technical challenges hands-on.
• Scout and recruit top technical talent, actively growing the engineering community.
• Work cross-functionally with Principal Engineers and teams across AWS Applied AI Solutions.
• Engage with key customers in executive briefings, communicating an inspiring technical vision.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.