Principal Solutions Architect - Fire TV

Job ID: 2407430 Amazon UK Services Ltd.

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 Principal 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

Relevant years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

Suitable experience of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Relevant 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

Suitable years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

Experience working with end user or developer communities

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Posted: January 26, 2023 (Updated 6 months ago)

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