principal software engineering Solutions Architect tech_leadership · Posted Mar 26, 2026

About this role

Amazon is hiring a principal-level Solutions Architect in the software engineering function based in Zurich, Switzerland. The posting calls out experience with AWS, LLMs, RAG, MLOps.

Role
Solutions Architect
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Zurich, Switzerland
Department
Sales, Advertising, & Account Management
Posted
Mar 26, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based system Specialist SAs play a critical role in capturing customer feedback, advocating for roadmap enhancements, and anticipating customer requirements as they work backwards from their needs. As domain experts, SSAs also participate in field engagement and enablement, producing content such as whitepapers, blogs, and workshops for customers, partners, and the AWS Technical Field. AI/ML/GenAI Specialist Solutions Architects combine technical skills in AI/ML/GenAI business acumen, and technical sales skills. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster. Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems, collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for…

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