Principal Analytics Solutions Architect, US AGS Specialist SA at Amazon
Herndon, VA
$182,800–$284,300from the description
Aug 7, 2026
Herndon, VA
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect role within AWS Global Sales, focused on helping enterprise customers design and adopt AWS data and analytics services — including data lakes, data warehouses, and streaming pipelines. The position involves deep technical advisory work with C-suite and IT leaders, architectural reviews, workshops, and thought leadership (blogs, whitepapers, conference speaking). Suited to a seasoned technologist with broad cloud and data/analytics expertise who enjoys customer-facing pre-sales engineering.
Senior level · 10+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 590 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 250–880
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $129,701 (middle half $84,324–$174,781). 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 (6)
This role is a pre-sales / solutions architecture position within AWS's specialist sales organization — it sits between a pure technical architect (15-1252) and a systems analyst (15-1211); 15-1299 was chosen as the best fit for a customer-facing specialist SA role with no single dominant engineering or analysis occupation.
The posting lists multiple US locations (East Palo Alto CA, Atlanta GA, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York NY, Dallas TX, Arlington VA, Herndon VA) with varying salary bands. The compensation range shown ($182,800–$284,300) spans the lowest minimum to the highest maximum across all listed locations.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None per schema rules. However, the posting does list a degree as a Basic Qualification, so candidates without a degree should be prepared to demonstrate equivalent experience.
Skills in the Preferred Qualifications section (distributed systems, large-scale automation/workflow management, database design, whiteboarding/presentations, cloud migration/modernization) are listed as preferred, not required gates.
The role is heavily customer-facing and pre-sales in nature; day-to-day work involves architectural advisory, workshops, and evangelism rather than hands-on software development or data engineering.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): workflow automation, database design.
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