Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Financial Services, Industry Specialists for Capital Markets
Amazon · New York City, NY · Solutions Architect
About this role
Amazon is hiring a principal-level Solutions Architect in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Redshift, LLMs, RAG. Compensation is listed at $201,000–$272,000 per year.
- Role
- Solutions Architect
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Department
- Solutions Architect
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAWS is seeking an experienced Principal Solutions Architect to join the Worldwide Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Unit as a Capital Markets Industry Specialist, with deep expertise in data and analytics, generative AI, and high performance compute. This is an ideal role for someone who has built large-scale data platforms, quantitative research infrastructure, or machine learning systems in capital markets, and who is ready to bring that expertise to hedge funds, asset managers, quantitative trading firms, and broker-dealers as they modernize their research and analytics capabilities on AWS. In this role, you will serve as a core technical leader on the Capital Markets Industry Specialist team, working directly with quantitative hedge funds, systematic asset managers, multi-strategy funds, broker-dealer research teams, and quantamental research shops to architect and accelerate their migration of data-intensive workloads to AWS. You will engage at the intersection of deep technical expertise and business strategy, helping customers understand how AWS can transform their quantitative research, alternative data integration, backtesting infrastructure, and generative AI-powered investment workflows. This role requires hands-on experience building in AWS, with a strong understanding of how to architect scalable, performant, and cost-effective solutions for the most demanding analytical workloads in capital markets. Role and…