Principal Solutions Architect, HCLS

You will architect solutions to the most significantly complex challenges in HCLS — decomposing intricate, multi-system problems into elegant, scalable designs that become reference architectures for the broader SA community. You will drive the creation of new architectural patterns and industry-specific methodologies (spanning Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, data platforms, and regulated workloads), and you will influence the product roadmaps of AWS service teams by translating deep customer insight into clear engineering requirements. In close partnership with account management, professional services, support, product teams, and the AWS partner ecosystem, you will own the strategy for building broad, lasting AWS adoption within your most strategic HCLS enterprise customers.

Key job responsibilities
This role drives the success of AWS's most complex and strategic Healthcare and Life Sciences engagements. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will own end-to-end solution programs — from strategy through architecture through customer realization — delivering measurable, long-term business impact. You will operate with complete independence, applying high judgment to determine where to focus your efforts for the greatest organizational and customer impact.

A core responsibility is defining the technical and strategic direction for large-scale HCLS transformations, including AI/ML and Generative AI programs, data modernization, and regulated cloud migrations. You will develop reusable reference architectures, methodologies, and thought leadership content — whitepapers, frameworks, and prescriptive guidance — that scale your impact across the SA community and the broader HCLS market.

You will serve as a strategic advisor to your customers' senior leadership, building trust at the executive level and influencing their long-term technology and business strategy. You will identify emerging customer needs before they are fully articulated, ask the questions customers haven't asked themselves, and lead the consensus-building required to align large, complex organizations around a path forward.

This role is a significant force multiplier within the SA organization. You will develop and lead programs to scale best practices across teams, perform Principal SA Technical Promotion Assessments, shepherd the tech promo process, and actively mentor and grow the HCLS SA community. You will contribute to your organization's strategic planning, identifying capability gaps, influencing hiring decisions, and partnering with leaders to shape the long-term direction of the team.

Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud