Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon
GenAI, AGS Tech Acceleration 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
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
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
- Experience with CI/CD solutions in the context of MLOps and LLMOps, including automation with IaC
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Experience in systems design with the ability to architect and explain data pipelines, ML pipelines, and ML training and serving approaches
- 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
- The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tech Acceleration Solutions (TAS) Architect team partners with customers and AWS Tech builders to design and build some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions
- AWS TAS Solutions architects collaborate with customers, AWS Global Sales, Marketing and Services teams to build innovative solutions that minimize customers effort to use AWS Cloud services
- As a Solutions Architect on the AWS Global Sales Tech Acceleration Solutions (TAS) team, you will have the opportunity to help define and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS GenAI by AWS tech builders and customers
- You will do this by mobilizing AWS and Amazon teams and working directly with customers and partners to identify and implement accelerators for AWS Cloud services adoption using GenAI, AI and ML
- You will work with a team of SAs who
- Apply business and technical skills to rapidly design well-architected solutions that help customers accelerate their adoption of AWS cloud
- Are known for high velocity assessment, prioritization, and build of quality, innovative solutions
- Continuously seek out the voice of the customer to guide their prioritization, and assess and increase their effectiveness
- Actively contribute to solution design enhancement initiatives across AWS
- In your role of Principal Solution Architect-GenAI in the AGS TAS organization you will
- Apply your deep expertise in GenAI prompt engineering, user experience design, data management and architecture to accelerate the development of innovative scalable end user productivity solutions that leverage GenAI
- Develop and lead others in developing reusable GenAI assets (including prompt libraries, design artifacts and use case starter kits) that help AGS Tech builders select the right GenAI architectures for their customer use cases
- Evangelize AWS GenAI services and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, white-papers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summits, AWS re:Invent, Tech Summits
- Partner with Sales, Tech and Services teams across AWS to prioritize the solutions that will accelerate customer adoption of GenAI services
- Benchmark continuously to elevate the innovation, quality and delivery speed of solutions
- Identify and implement opportunities to integrate TAS open source approaches into AGS tech and AWS cross organization operating model
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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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(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 (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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