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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 Fire tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs (e.g. Fire TV Edition), and streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick). As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will work with top-tier partners to create incredible experiences that will wow customers.

Key job responsibilities

Provide technical consultation to strategic app and game partners

Create policies and establish processes for supporting app developers

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

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

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

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

Manage complex projects with significant impact

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

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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 compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/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.