Full Job Description
The Alexa+ team seeks an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to drive strategic adoption of Alexa+ across Tier-1 partners, and shape the future of Generative AI integrations at scale.
Powered by GenAI, Alexa+ is your new personal AI assistant that gets things done-she's smarter, more conversational, more capable, and is available across our family of devices: screened, non-screened, mobile, FireTV, and Alexa.com, to name a few. Rebuilt from the ground up, this new version of Alexa uses a state-of-the-art architecture that automatically connects a variety of large language models (LLMs), agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale.
In your role as voice of the developer, and representing Amazon as a senior technical leader, you'll manage relationships with customer senior leadership, providing technical consultation to key development partners, and lead complex projects with cross-team impact. Responsibilities include proactively identifying future trends and product gaps, developing reusable architectural frameworks to accelerate adoption, and establishing best practices that empower the broader SA community. This position requires operating with a strong product mindset, and leveraging that to translate complex technical concepts into business value for senior leaders while helping partners identify innovative applications for Alexa's capabilities, and make strategic trade-offs to achieve long-term goals.
The ideal candidate brings extensive technology solution design experience, proven success leading large-scale cloud architectural implementations, and a track record of driving technical strategy with executive stakeholders. You combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership abilities, enabling you to drive cross-team change, and mentor other architects while building lasting partnerships at the highest levels.
Key job responsibilities
Technical Innovation & Excellence
- Design and establish large-scale solution design and architectural frameworks that drive consistent implementation across multiple partner portfolios
- Create reference patterns and LLM optimization standards that simplify complex problems and become adopted both internally and externally
- Make high judgment technical decisions independently in ambiguous situations, determining appropriate solution strategies with significant business impact
Partner & Business Impact
- Drive C-level technical engagement with strategic partners, establishing technology roadmaps that drive Amazon and partner flywheels
- Establish scalable processes and frameworks that accelerate adoption across categories, not just individual partners
- Influence Alexa+'s customer and developer experience through synthesis of market trends, competitive intelligence, and strategic partner feedback
Strategic Leadership & Development
- Collaborate with product leadership during early formation stages of new capabilities, directly influencing product requirements and go-to-market strategies
- Accelerate SA community development by mentoring junior architects, performing technical promotion assessments, and establishing team best practices
- Represent Amazon as a recognized thought leader at major industry events, establishing technical credibility that opens new strategic partnership opportunities
A day in the life
We're looking for a highly talented and motivated Sr SA to join our Alexa+ team to help bring our partner experiences to life with Generative AI. You'll engage in deep, technical discussions to design solutions, solve problems, and coordinate Alexa+ feature implementations to raise the bar on the customer experience. You'll be acting as voice of the developer with our domain, product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps using strong product insights, data-driven analysis, and a working backwards mindset.
About the team
Our mission is to source and onboard, delightful, useful, and engaging third party experiences to Alexa+ that helps customers get things done, and drives the Amazon and partner flywheels. We are a diverse group of technologists who bridge the gap between business development (BD), internal product and engineering teams, and customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
- Working knowledge of LLMs and their application in GenAI applications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
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, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
