Unlock Your Career Potential at Amazon Business
Join a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business that's passionate about building innovative solutions to disrupt the status quo in the B2B space. At Amazon Business, we're at the forefront of developing cutting-edge purchasing and procurement solutions that empower businesses and organizations to thrive. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our growing partner ecosystem and driving innovation in procurement technology.
About Amazon Business and the Role
Our mission is to build the most technically robust and strategically impactful ecosystem for business buying. We're seeking a seasoned technical leader to drive the technical strategy for our partner ecosystem, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and scalability across a global network. As a Principal Partner Solutions Architect, you'll blend strategic vision, hands-on architecture, and collaboration with partners and internal teams to deliver sophisticated, scalable solutions alongside procurement platforms, global system integrators, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).
Key Responsibilities
- Define and Drive Technical Strategy: Lead the technical direction of Amazon Business's partner ecosystem, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and scalability across a global network.
- Design and Implement Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Architect complex technical integrations with platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, and others, ensuring technical excellence and reliability.
- Lead API Platform Evolution: Drive the evolution of Amazon Business's API platform, defining capabilities that enable advanced partner use cases and improve developer experiences.
- Provide Architectural Leadership: Guide large-scale, partner-driven enterprise procurement transformations, ensuring technical governance and excellence.
- Collaborate with Global System Integrators and ISVs: Validate complex customer architectures and deliver robust technical solutions.
- Technical Escalation Point: Resolve architectural challenges, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of partner integrations.
- Shape Amazon Business App Center Strategy: Drive innovation in the marketplace ecosystem and enable partner-built applications.
- Establish Technical Governance Frameworks: Standardize and optimize partner integration solutions.
- Collaborate with Internal Teams: Influence Amazon Business's API roadmap and prioritize features that drive partner success.
- Represent Amazon Business: Advocate for best practices and standards in B2B commerce in technical forums, panels, and industry events.
- Drive Thought Leadership: Publish technical publications, white papers, and collaborate with developer communities.
- Engineer Next-Generation Integration Patterns: Leverage technologies like REST APIs, cXML, and EDI to build industry-leading solutions.
Qualifications and Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise-scale, technology-driven solutions in B2B commerce or procurement technology.
- Experience architecting complex technical integrations with platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, or similar systems.
- Experience in API development, REST APIs, cXML, EDI, and other integration standards, with a focus on building scalable and secure architectures.
- Experience working with global system integrators and managing large-scale technical transformations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and the ability to leverage AWS tools and services for advanced integration solutions.
- Ability to work cross-functionally to engage with engineering teams, product leaders, and C-level stakeholders, delivering technical strategies that drive innovation.
- Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of best practices and shape technical standards across partner ecosystems.
What We Offer
Amazon Business is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We offer a competitive salary ranging from $164,500/year to $284,300/year, depending on market location and job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. As a total compensation company, we also provide equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Work Environment and Culture
This is a fully remote role, offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We're an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Career Growth and Learning Benefits
As a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Business, you'll have the opportunity to drive innovation, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with partners and internal teams. You'll be part of a rapidly expanding global business that's passionate about building cutting-edge solutions. Our culture of innovation and customer obsession will empower you to grow your career and develop new skills.
Conclusion
If you're a seasoned technical leader with a passion for driving innovation in procurement technology, we want to hear from you. Join Amazon Business as a Principal Solutions Architect and be part of a team that's shaping the future of business procurement. Apply now and unlock your career potential!
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