Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon
OpsTech Solutions
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
Desirable
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Principal Solution Architect driving the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance, and secure systems on the AWS platform
- You are the technical visionaries who translate complex business requirements into innovative cloud-native solutions, leveraging the full spectrum of AWS services and best practices
- You build credibility through deep understanding of both the customer's business challenges and the OTS ecosystem
- You collaborate closely with stakeholders to architect solutions that optimize for performance, cost-efficiency, and operational excellence, adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services with AWS
- Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems and help them implement scalable and resilient systems
- Educate customers on the value proposition of OTS ecosystem and showcase the art of possible
- Drive deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create solutions built on cloud services
- Author and contribute to OTS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, workshops, demos and proof of concepts
- Build deep relationships with customer engineering, product, and science leaders
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge across internal Amazon builders and the WWops solutions architect community
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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