Principal Solutions Architect, Betting & Gaming

About the Role: Principal Solutions Architect, Betting & Gaming

Are you a passionate builder with deep expertise in betting and gaming solutions, eager to work with innovative companies transforming the industry? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an exciting opportunity for you. The Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports team is seeking an experienced and motivated technologist with a passion for creating strategies, best practices, and solving complex business challenges focusing on the Betting and Gaming industry.

As a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) for Betting and Gaming at AWS, you'll be responsible for educating customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the Betting and Gaming industry in areas such as real-time wagering platforms, player engagement, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and advanced analytics. You get to work with sports betting operators, online casinos, lottery providers, fantasy sports platforms, and gaming technology vendors to help them build scalable, secure, and compliant solutions with the AWS cloud. You'll provide hands-on architectural guidance for real-life customer projects involving various AWS services and Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions and collaborate with cross-Amazon teams to develop outcome-based holistic solutions for strategic opportunities in the betting and gaming industry.

In this role, you'll be a content creator, a storyteller, and a presenter, building and publishing content and collateral for betting and gaming customers in one-on-one and group settings. You'll work with customers remotely and in person, sharing your expertise and insights. This role requires at least 30% travel, including international travel.

Key Job Responsibilities

• As a Leader, you'll anticipate future trends and identify applications of emerging technologies to enhance betting platforms, gaming operations, player personalization, and responsible gaming initiatives, enabling innovative experiences and effective solutions for our customers.
• Drive the strategy for betting and gaming solutions for customers across sports betting, online casino, lottery, and fantasy sports sectors.
• Architect and deliver innovative, customer-obsessed solutions leveraging AWS services and partner offerings tailored for the betting and gaming industry, with focus on real-time processing, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Create high-quality enablement content, including guidance, blogs, demos, POCs, and presentations, to share your expertise in betting and gaming solutions.
• Deliver written and spoken communications on complex betting platform architecture, gaming operations, player analytics, and regulatory compliance subjects, establishing AWS as the public cloud of choice for organizations in the betting and gaming industry looking to accelerate innovation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other Solutions Architects working with betting and gaming customers.

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

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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

• 8+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• 8+ years experience with betting platforms, gaming operations, player engagement systems, and analytics in the betting and gaming industry.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks across multiple jurisdictions (e.g., UK Gambling Commission, Malta Gaming Authority, state-level US regulations).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent.
• Prior hands-on experience with AWS services and solutions tailored for the betting and gaming industry, including real-time data processing, machine learning for personalization and fraud detection, and secure payment processing.
• Broad experience across multiple IT domains relevant to the betting and gaming industry, including Real-Time Wagering Platforms, Player Account Management, Responsible Gaming Solutions, Odds Compilation and Trading Systems, and Player Analytics.
• Strong business acumen to comprehend the betting and gaming industry, customer/partner challenges including regulatory complexity and market dynamics, and propose solutions to address their business problems effectively.
• Knowledge of responsible gaming frameworks, anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, and player protection mechanisms.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Betting & Gaming Industry
• AWS Services
• Regulatory Compliance
• Real-time Wagering
• Player Engagement
• Advanced Analytics
• Technical Leadership
• Content Creation
• Strategic Solutions