Solutions Architect Amazon
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

At Amazon, we're always working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a Solutions Architect who will be working with a unique and gifted team developing new, exciting and cutting-edge products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers, scientists, and business people engaged in a fast-paced mission to deliver these new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, technical invention, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. You should also be comfortable collaborating regularly with colleagues across many of Amazon's current businesses, including devices, retail, and AWS.

In this role, you will be a Solutions Architect that works with the top names in the interactive media space to help them bring their content and experiences to Amazon customers, and you will help make it easy for our strategic partners to create successful businesses by building for those customers. You will have deep technical knowledge and work closely with internal BD, Engineering and Product organizations, but spend much of your time interacting directly with partners. You will combine your unbridled enthusiasm and deep knowledge of interactive media with your ability to work with external partners. You have the technical background and experience to fluently interact with and provide guidance to software developers and architects, while also providing strategic technical guidance. You have hands-on experience with interactive media and distribution models and channels, including the strategies and challenges associated with building digital products that are accessed by a multitude of device types. You will also be able to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges and map the intersection of partner needs and Amazon priorities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Define, design and build products that delight consumers and compel them to engage despite an abundance of alternatives and distractions
* Build the partner component of the product strategy and vision supported by internal and external analysis
* Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
* Work closely and collaboratively with design and product teams from partner organizations
* Drive dialog with engineering teams and program management from multiple products to deliver integrated services
* Define creative, high quality, simple product roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
* Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture for each product and application
* Manage prioritization and trade-offs across partners and among customer experience, performance, and operational support load
* Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals