Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Industries - Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports (AWSI-MEGS)
Amazon3 days ago
Base Salary
$183k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end cloud solutions that are extensible, secure, reliable, scalable, performant, and cost-optimized.
- Advise customer leadership and align technology decisions with long-term business outcomes.
- Lead technical solution discussions, design reviews, workshops, and architecture planning with customer teams.
- Create technical presentations, sample code, white papers, prototypes, demos, proofs of concept, and reference architectures.
- Collaborate with sales, professional services, support, engineering, product teams, ISVs, and industry partners to accelerate solution adoption.
- Develop expertise in streaming, media supply chain, advertising technology, generative AI, live streaming, media asset management, and ad delivery and personalization.
- Share technical expertise through blogs, conference talks, and industry events.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps for cloud transformation.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences at the C-level, including through training, workshops, and publications.
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large-scale automation and workflow management, and database design and implementation.
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
- Preferred familiarity with media, entertainment, gaming, or sports workloads and domain expertise in media supply chain, streaming, gaming, live broadcast, or sports analytics.
- Preferred track record of thought leadership through publications or conference talks and knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Additional compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The listed locations are in California: East Palo Alto, Irvine, San Francisco, and Santa Monica.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.