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Description

Amazon Devices team is looking for an experienced and motivated leader who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and relationship management skills. Our partners develop apps and games for Amazon devices powered by Fire OS and Alexa, such as streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick), Fire Tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs (e.g. Fire TV Edition), and more. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will work internally with senior product and engineering leaders across the Devices organization and with top-tier partners externally to optimize digital experiences for our customers.

Key job responsibilities

Document best practices and create development resources that can be used by developers

Build reference architecture, frameworks and toolkits to drive adoption at scale

Influence internal engineering prioritization decisions and product roadmaps to best serve both customers and developers

Provide technical consultation to strategic app and game partners

Establish thought leadership externally through written contributions and public speaking

Develop unique, compelling, and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new Amazon technologies

Deliver persuasive, passionate, high impact, high quality presentations to senior decision makers

A day in the life

You will act as the primary technical liaison between external partners and Amazon product teams to help shape their product roadmaps. Your role will be to guide partners as they productize and integrate with Amazon Services and enable them to grow their business through monetization and increase in engagement. You'll evangelize best practices through whitepapers, presentations and sample code. As you build relationships with your partners, you'll understand their business, product roadmap, and challenges. You'll use this information to advocate on their behalf to Amazon product teams, helping improve the feature sets and quality of Amazon products and services.

If you have a passion for the app space, a solid understanding of the technologies involved, and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for partner needs, this role is for you.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ 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 communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent

- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent

- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent

- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.