Application deadline: Sep 28, 2026
The AWS Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a Principal Delivery Consultant, Emerging Technologies - Sports, Media and Entertainment. In this role, you will serve as a strategic technical leader recognized broadly, both within AWS and across the industry, for your domain-leading expertise. Your work will be primarily strategic: you will amplify impact by shaping outcomes with senior leaders, influencing technology and business strategies across the vertical, and creating scalable mechanisms that define best practices at scale.
You will own the full engagement lifecycle - from leading discovery sessions and defining target-state architectures through designing, building, and deploying production solutions for Sports, Media, and Entertainment customers. Your day-to-day work will center on building ML training and inference pipelines, implementing RAG architectures and prompt engineering, orchestrating agentic workflows, and configuring media processing workflows. You will partner with AWS Service teams to drive roadmap prioritization and incubate new capabilities across professional leagues, collegiate athletics, streaming platforms, studios, and live event venues.
Drawing on familiarity with broadcast and OTT content delivery workflows, venue IoT and edge computing, and fan engagement platforms, you will guide stakeholders through emerging technologies - including generative AI, agentic AI, computer vision, and modern data platforms. You will identify patterns across customers, develop new architectural principles, and create reusable intellectual property that drives innovation at scale, while managing up to four concurrent engagements.
Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:
Owning the full engagement lifecycle for Sports, Media, and Entertainment customers: leading discovery sessions, defining target-state architectures, building proof-of-concept solutions, designing and implementing production-grade cloud solutions, and ensuring adherence to Well-Architected best practices
Building and deploying AI/ML solutions including ML training and inference pipelines, RAG architectures with prompt engineering, agentic workflow orchestration, and media processing workflows for industry use cases such as fan engagement, venue operations, content workflows, and media production
Designing and implementing data platform solutions using lakehouse and medallion architectures, streaming pipelines, and open table formats to support analytics and AI workloads for sports and media customers
Building reusable architectural artifacts, developing new design patterns by identifying trends across the vertical, and partnering with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities
Mentoring team members, leading knowledge-sharing initiatives, and contributing to the practice's emerging technology roadmap to grow organizational capabilities
A day in the life
Your morning begins whiteboarding an Agentic AI architecture with an NFL franchise to transform fan engagement. Mid-morning, you review a generative AI proof-of-concept for a studio's content workflow against Well-Architected best practices.
At lunch, you mentor teammates on computer vision for venue operations. Afternoon shifts to presenting a business case to C-level executives at an MLS club, securing a funded engagement.
Late afternoon, you collaborate with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities, then finalize a reusable reference architecture for the vertical. You close the day reviewing portfolio metrics and drafting strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
- Experience in the Sports, Media, Entertainment, or related industries, including familiarity with broadcast/OTT content delivery workflows or venue operations
- Experience building and deploying production AI/ML solutions, including ML training/inference pipelines, data platform architectures, or media processing workflows
- Experience delivering generative AI solutions to production, including RAG architectures, prompt engineering, foundation model integration, or agentic workflow orchestration
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- AWS Professional-level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)
- Experience with AWS AI/ML and media services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, AgentCore, AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaConvert, IVS, and Amazon Personalize
- Experience designing data platforms using lakehouse or medallion architectures, open table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg), and streaming technologies (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka)
- Knowledge of league data systems and governance frameworks, player/biometric data handling, content licensing, and privacy regulations relevant to sports and media
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with third-party data platforms commonly deployed on cloud infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
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, TX, Dallas - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
