senior software engineering Solutions Architect ic · Posted Feb 11, 2026

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Solutions Architect in the software engineering function based in Zurich, Switzerland. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

Role
Solutions Architect
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Zurich, Switzerland
Department
Solutions Architect
Posted
Feb 11, 2026
AI Summary
Specialist Solutions Architect focused on database expertise, working with enterprise and mid-market customers to design scalable cloud architectures and solve complex technical challenges. Combines deep database domain knowledge with sales skills to guide customers through refactoring and new cloud system design while capturing feedback for product roadmap improvements.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. 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 systems. 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. Database Specialist Solutions Architects combine technical skills in Databases, 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…

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