Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - Messaging & Analytics, Data & AI GTM at Amazon
Herndon, VA
$153,600–$207,800from the description
Aug 8, 2026
Herndon, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A customer-facing Specialist Solutions Architect role at AWS focused exclusively on messaging and event-driven architecture. The person in this seat serves as the primary technical expert for Amazon SQS, SNS, and MQ, guiding enterprise customers through architecture design, cloud migrations from legacy brokers, and modernization of asynchronous communication systems. It suits a seasoned technologist with deep messaging domain knowledge who is comfortable influencing product roadmaps and producing public technical content.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 40 people in the Seattle, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer systems analysts). range 25–60
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $136,630 (middle half $104,447–$169,017). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 10, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is posted across four US metro locations (Boston MA, Arlington VA, Herndon VA, Seattle WA) with the same salary band; Seattle is listed as the primary metro here but candidates may be based in any of those cities.
The 5+ years requirement is at the role level (technical specialist/SA/systems engineering); the 3+ years figure is scoped specifically to messaging/event-driven systems and is captured on the relevant skills.
RabbitMQ and Apache ActiveMQ appear in the Basic Qualifications as examples within a single 'or similar' list alongside Amazon SQS/SNS and Apache Kafka — they are treated as interchangeable options for satisfying the messaging experience gate rather than three separate hard requirements.
IBM MQ and TIBCO EMS appear only under Preferred Qualifications (migration experience), so they are marked preferred.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily pre-sales architecture and advisory (closer to 15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts) rather than hands-on software development (15-1252), but the deep technical design and distributed-systems work creates genuine ambiguity.
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