• Job Description

  Req#: 2418436
  The Content & App Partner Engagement (CAPE) 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, streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick) .
  
  As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will work with top-tier partners to create incredible Alexa-enabled experiences that will wow customers on Fire TV, Echo Show and Tablets. 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 monetisation and increase in engagement.
  
  You'll evangelize best practices through white-papers, presentations and sample code and help partners adopt a new voice paradigm in their apps and games, using various Alexa services such as Video Skills Kit (VSK). As you build relationships with your partners, you'll understand their business, product roadmap, and challenges. You'll use this information to influence Amazon product teams, helping improve the product offerings and quality of Amazon products and services.
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  - Provide technical consultation to strategic partners and Amazon product teams
  - Write sample code to accelerate adoption of Amazon technology
  - Author blog posts, contribute to webinars, create presentations, and run demos to explain technical concepts
  - Create best practices, knowledge base articles, and processes to increase the effectiveness of the team
  - Guide partners as they build and migrate their applications, software, and services on Amazon devices
  - Act as a technical liaison between customers, external partners, Amazon engineering teams, and support
  - Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Amazon Services and Alexa, and participate in deep architectural discussions
  
  Hiring in any of the locations - London, Berlin, Munich and Luxembourg.
  
  We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
  
  London, GBR- 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
  - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
  - Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
  - Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
  - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
  - Experience working with end user or developer communities
  
  Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
  
  Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).

• About the company

  Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.

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