Sr. Solutions Architect, CAPE

Full Job Description

The Content and App Partner Engagement team within Amazon Devices 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 Vega and Fire OS, such as Fire tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs (e.g. Fire TV Edition), and streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick). As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you will work with top-tier partners to create incredible video and voice-enabled experiences that will wow customers. 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, curiosity to learn and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for partner needs, join our team!

Key Responsibilities: - Provide technical consultation to strategic app 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
• Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics

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.

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, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

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