Amazon Sr Solutions Architect Alexa+ 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

166188627

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 will be 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 translating 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.
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- 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 feedbackStrategic Leadership & Development- Collaborate with product leadership during early formation stages of new capabilities, directly influencing product requirements and go-to-market strategiesA 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 data-driven analysis, and a working backwards mindset.

- 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
- Moderate experience with at least one language, e.g., Python, TypeScript, Java, to build working prototypes or production systems that showcase innovative approaches to technical problems
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Working knowledge of LLMs and their application in GenAI applications

- 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
- Track record of technical thought leadership (speaking engagements, publications)
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with technical and business stakeholders, from individual contributors to C-suite executivesPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.