Principal Solutions Developer , Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Job Summary Do you have a builder's mentality where "show me" means more than "tell me"? Are you passionate about technology and AI, understand cloud architectures and platforms, and quick to adopt emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate technical feasibility?

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Qualifications

• Do you have a builder's mentality where "show me" means more than "tell me"?
• 15+ 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 in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
• Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .
• Net, Java or equivalent
• PREFERRED
• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding

Responsibilities

• You'll work across industry verticals including automotive, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.
• Leadership Profile: You're expected to be both "coach" and "player", essentially a CTO-like profile.
• You must be hands-on with deep experience and knowledge, articulate in communication, and capable of mentoring team members.
• You'll represent AWS in customer meetings, serving as both the AWS voice and customer advocate.
• At the Principal level, you will operate with complete independence in ambiguous environments where business objectives are emergent and problems are novel.
• Technical Excellence: As a technical leader, you combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability, comfortable at both the whiteboard and keyboard.
• You'll push the technical bar by taking initiative to learn new topics and experiment across domains such as AI, serverless, Agentic Design, and Physical AI in enterprise contexts.
• Ownership and Execution: You'll own key development tasks from design through implementation with minimal supervision, delivering to a high standard.
• You'll establish trust by defining clear paths forward and actively reviewing others' proposals, speaking up when architectural choices need improvement.
• This role demands exceptional judgment, the ability to think big while diving deep, and a relentless focus on raising the bar for technical excellence.
• Scale and Impact: You'll improve your scale and impact across the team and organization with a technical focus.
• You will look across the team's technical body of work to identify ways to invent and simplify, defining experiments and projects that you and others in the team can execute on.

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