Senior Solutions Architect, Media and Entertainment, Media Entertainment, Games and Sports

Amazon • New York, NY

406d • $138,200 - $239,000

About The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect for Media and Entertainment at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is responsible for developing technology strategies and managing senior-level relationships with global enterprise media customers. This role involves crafting scalable cloud architectures, driving revenue growth, and acting as a trusted advocate for customers, ensuring their needs are met through AWS services.

Requirements

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

Responsibilities

• Support AWS Account teams to help formulate a strategy for the adoption of Streaming Media, Broadcast, Production, Post-Production, Personalization, Analytics, AI/ML, and Supply Chain tools within the Media and Entertainment (M&E) vertical.
• Work with existing and potential customers to deeply understand their business and technical needs. Develop solutions that make the best use of the AWS Cloud platform.
• Collaborate with AWS field sales, training, and support teams to ensure customer success.
• Exhibit Thought Leadership. Evangelize AWS Services and Streaming Media solutions that benefit customers. Share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public speaking events such as AWS Summit and AWS re:Invent.
• Act as technical liaison between customers and the service engineering teams, providing product improvement feedback to AWS developers and accelerating the adoption of new features in customer deployments.
• Provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to builders considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge pertaining to Media technologies among the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.
• Be able to develop proof-of-concepts for Media applications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Flexible work-life balance
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: No Education Listed