Senior Solution Architect Jobs in California
Senior Solution Architect jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in enterprise technology, cloud infrastructure, financial services, and defense contracting, with demand at every level from mid-career architect through distinguished principal. The largest hiring hubs are the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, where established employers like Salesforce, Cisco, and Northrop Grumman maintain major California operations. The most in-demand specialties include cloud-native architecture, enterprise integration, and cybersecurity solution design. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam
OpenSearch is an open-source, Apache License v2 suite under the Linux Foundation, supporting a broad range of workloads. Amazon OpenSearch is a managed service that makes it simple to run OpenSearch in the AWS cloud. Are you passionate about building search, observability, and Generative AI applications with OpenSearch? AWS is seeking a customer-obsessed and technically driven OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect.
As a member of the Specialist SA team in WWSO, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert for Amazon OpenSearch, helping customers architect scalable, secure, and performant search, analytics solutions. You'll collaborate with solution architects, product teams, and sales to deliver strategic guidance, deep technical expertise, and thought leadership in areas like semantic search, observability, and large-scale log analytics. Whether it's advising startups on search architecture, observability, and security solutions, or helping enterprises integrate OpenSearch with GenAI workflows, you'll play a key role in accelerating customer innovation.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide deep technical expertise for customer engagements involving OpenSearch, designing and deploying scalable, high-performance search and analytics solutions.
- Lead architectural reviews, migration assessments, and workshops focused on search, log analytics, observability, and GenAI-based use cases for our customers.
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
- Build and nurture AWS's global OpenSearch expert community while creating technical enablement resources for Solutions Architects worldwide.
- Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events and Webinars, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
- Help customers accelerate their Generative AI deployments with OpenSearch vector store
About the team
About AWS
Amazon Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP)
This position is part of the Amazon Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
- 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop,OpenSearch, Elastic or Lucene/SOLR experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or Cloud
- Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or Cloud
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam
OpenSearch is an open-source, Apache License v2 suite under the Linux Foundation, supporting a broad range of workloads. Amazon OpenSearch is a managed service that makes it simple to run OpenSearch in the AWS cloud. Are you passionate about building search, observability, and Generative AI applications with OpenSearch? AWS is seeking a customer-obsessed and technically driven OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect.
As a member of the Specialist SA team in WWSO, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert for Amazon OpenSearch, helping customers architect scalable, secure, and performant search, analytics solutions. You'll collaborate with solution architects, product teams, and sales to deliver strategic guidance, deep technical expertise, and thought leadership in areas like semantic search, observability, and large-scale log analytics. Whether it's advising startups on search architecture, observability, and security solutions, or helping enterprises integrate OpenSearch with GenAI workflows, you'll play a key role in accelerating customer innovation.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide deep technical expertise for customer engagements involving OpenSearch, designing and deploying scalable, high-performance search and analytics solutions.
- Lead architectural reviews, migration assessments, and workshops focused on search, log analytics, observability, and GenAI-based use cases for our customers.
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
- Build and nurture AWS's global OpenSearch expert community while creating technical enablement resources for Solutions Architects worldwide.
- Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events and Webinars, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
- Help customers accelerate their Generative AI deployments with OpenSearch vector store
About the team
About AWS
Amazon Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP)
This position is part of the Amazon Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
- 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop,OpenSearch, Elastic or Lucene/SOLR experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or Cloud
- Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or Cloud
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior solution architect jobs across California.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering field
- Ten or more years of enterprise IT experience with at least three in an architecture leadership role
- Demonstrated cloud platform expertise across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud in large-scale environments
- Experience delivering architecture roadmaps for organizations with complex hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure
- Strong command of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, microservices, and modern DevSecOps practices
- Relevant architecture certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or TOGAF strongly preferred
Senior Solution Architect Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior solution architect in California?
The path to a senior solution architect role in California runs through a combination of a relevant bachelor's or master's degree and progressive enterprise IT experience, typically in software engineering, systems architecture, or infrastructure. California does not require a state-issued license for this role. Most California employers expect candidates to hold industry certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or TOGAF, which function as the primary credentialing benchmarks in the California market.
How much do senior solution architects make in California?
Senior solution architects in California earn a median of about $158,870 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $97,070 for the lowest 10% to over $224,930 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior solution architects in California?
Employers hiring senior solution architects in California right now include Amazon Web Services, Intuitive (Intuitive Surgical), and JFrog, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. California's concentration of technology headquarters, defense contractors, and large financial institutions means the hiring pool is broad and fairly continuous throughout the year.
Which California cities have the most senior solution architect jobs?
San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and Los Angeles have the most senior solution architect openings in California. The Bay Area leads because of its density of enterprise technology headquarters and cloud platform companies, Los Angeles draws demand from media, aerospace, and large consulting firms, and San Diego is anchored by defense contractors and a growing cybersecurity sector that relies heavily on senior architecture talent.
Are there remote senior solution architect jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. Senior solution architect work is largely design, documentation, and stakeholder engagement, which translates well to distributed teams. About 57% of senior solution architect openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting how broadly California employers have adopted flexible arrangements for senior technical staff. The most remote-friendly sub-roles tend to be in cloud architecture and enterprise integration, where hands-on lab or data center access is minimal.
How can I get hired as a senior solution architect in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a software engineering, DevOps, or systems administration role into a solutions engineer or associate architect position. Large California technology employers and consulting firms such as Deloitte's California practices and mid-size Bay Area cloud consultancies regularly hire solutions engineers as a structured feeder role. Building a portfolio of architecture diagrams, infrastructure-as-code projects, or open-source contributions alongside a cloud associate certification gives candidates from adjacent roles a concrete edge in California hiring processes.
Where can I find and apply to senior solution architect jobs in California?
You can find and apply to senior solution architect jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings from employers across the state. Find the roles that fit your background and apply directly from the listing.
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