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Principal Delivery Consultant, Emerging Technologies – Sports Industry
Job Location:
Job Location:
Arlington, TX - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 182800 - 247300
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
3 October 2026 (12 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
31 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Application deadline: Oct 6 2026
The AWS Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a Principal Delivery Consultant Emerging Technologies this role you will serve as a strategic technical leader recognized broadly both within AWS and across the industry for your domain-leading expertise. Your work will be primarily strategic: you will amplify impact by shaping outcomes with senior leaders influencing technology and business strategies across the vertical and creating scalable mechanisms that define best practices at scale.
You will own the full engagement lifecycle from leading discovery sessions and defining target-state architectures through designing building and deploying production solutions for Sports customers. Your day-to-day work will center on building ML training and inference pipelines implementing RAG architectures and prompt engineering orchestrating agentic workflows and configuring media processing workflows. You will partner with AWS Service teams to drive roadmap prioritization and incubate new capabilities across professional leagues collegiate athletics streaming platforms studios and live event venues.
Drawing on familiarity with broadcast and OTT content delivery workflows venue IoT and edge computing and fan engagement platforms you will guide stakeholders through emerging technologies including generative AI agentic AI computer vision and modern data platforms. You will identify patterns across customers develop new architectural principles and create reusable intellectual property that drives innovation at scale while managing up to four concurrent engagements.
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that helps customers realize their desired business outcomes on the AWS Cloud. Working alongside customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) we deliver focused guidance through specialty practices spanning a variety of solutions technologies and industries.
Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional you will be responsible for:
Owning the full engagement lifecycle for Sports customers: leading discovery sessions defining target-state architectures building proof-of-concept solutions designing and implementing production-grade cloud solutions and ensuring adherence to Well-Architected best practices
Building and deploying AI/ML solutions including ML training and inference pipelines RAG architectures with prompt engineering agentic workflow orchestration and media processing workflows for industry use cases such as fan engagement venue operations content workflows and media production
Designing and implementing data platform solutions using lakehouse and medallion architectures streaming pipelines and open table formats to support analytics and AI workloads for sports and media customers
Building reusable architectural artifacts developing new design patterns by identifying trends across the vertical and partnering with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities
Mentoring team members leading knowledge-sharing initiatives and contributing to the practices emerging technology roadmap to grow organizational capabilities
A day in the life
Your morning begins whiteboarding an Agentic AI architecture with an NFL franchise to transform fan engagement. Mid-morning you review a generative AI proof-of-concept for a studios content workflow against Well-Architected best practices.
At lunch you mentor teammates on computer vision for venue operations. Afternoon shifts to presenting a business case to C-level executives at an MLS club securing a funded engagement.
Late afternoon you collaborate with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities then finalize a reusable reference architecture for the vertical. You close the day reviewing portfolio metrics and drafting strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
About the team
The Emerging Technology Team within AWS ProServe NAMER serves as the nucleus of customer cloud transformation orchestrating the adoption and scaling of technologies across enterprise and government organizations. The team consists of consultants with deep expertise spanning AI/ML generative AI data analytics IoT computer vision robotics quantum computing and more.
Their mission centers on transformation consulting emerging tech-led adoption expertise and deep industry context. Leveraging Emerging Tech Adoption Framework (ETAF) they help customers envision prototype and scale emerging technologies using a risk-aware portfolio-based investment approach accelerating business outcomes while developing the next generation of AI solutions.
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating. Thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth: Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
10046
- 8 years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Math or a related field
- Experience in the Sports including familiarity with broadcast/OTT content delivery workflows or venue operations
- Experience building and deploying production AI/ML solutions including ML training/inference pipelines data platform architectures or media processing workflows
- Experience delivering generative AI solutions to production including RAG architectures prompt engineering foundation model integration or agentic workflow orchestration
- AWS Professional-level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional)
- Experience with AWS AI/ML and media services such as Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker AgentCore AWS Elemental MediaLive MediaConvert IVS and Amazon Personalize
- Experience designing data platforms using lakehouse or medallion architectures open table formats (e.g. Apache Iceberg) and streaming technologies (e.g. Kinesis Kafka)
- Knowledge of league data systems and governance frameworks player/biometric data handling content licensing and privacy regulations relevant to sports and media
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. CDK CloudFormation Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with third-party data platforms commonly deployed on cloud infrastructure (e.g. Snowflake Databricks)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The AWS Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a Principal Delivery Consultant Emerging Technologies this role you will serve as a strategic technical leader recognized broadly both within AWS and across the industry for your domain-leading expertise. Your work will be primarily strategic: you will amplify impact by shaping outcomes with senior leaders influencing technology and business strategies across the vertical and creating scalable mechanisms that define best practices at scale.
You will own the full engagement lifecycle from leading discovery sessions and defining target-state architectures through designing building and deploying production solutions for Sports customers. Your day-to-day work will center on building ML training and inference pipelines implementing RAG architectures and prompt engineering orchestrating agentic workflows and configuring media processing workflows. You will partner with AWS Service teams to drive roadmap prioritization and incubate new capabilities across professional leagues collegiate athletics streaming platforms studios and live event venues.
Drawing on familiarity with broadcast and OTT content delivery workflows venue IoT and edge computing and fan engagement platforms you will guide stakeholders through emerging technologies including generative AI agentic AI computer vision and modern data platforms. You will identify patterns across customers develop new architectural principles and create reusable intellectual property that drives innovation at scale while managing up to four concurrent engagements.
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that helps customers realize their desired business outcomes on the AWS Cloud. Working alongside customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) we deliver focused guidance through specialty practices spanning a variety of solutions technologies and industries.
Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional you will be responsible for:
Owning the full engagement lifecycle for Sports customers: leading discovery sessions defining target-state architectures building proof-of-concept solutions designing and implementing production-grade cloud solutions and ensuring adherence to Well-Architected best practices
Building and deploying AI/ML solutions including ML training and inference pipelines RAG architectures with prompt engineering agentic workflow orchestration and media processing workflows for industry use cases such as fan engagement venue operations content workflows and media production
Designing and implementing data platform solutions using lakehouse and medallion architectures streaming pipelines and open table formats to support analytics and AI workloads for sports and media customers
Building reusable architectural artifacts developing new design patterns by identifying trends across the vertical and partnering with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities
Mentoring team members leading knowledge-sharing initiatives and contributing to the practices emerging technology roadmap to grow organizational capabilities
A day in the life
Your morning begins whiteboarding an Agentic AI architecture with an NFL franchise to transform fan engagement. Mid-morning you review a generative AI proof-of-concept for a studios content workflow against Well-Architected best practices.
At lunch you mentor teammates on computer vision for venue operations. Afternoon shifts to presenting a business case to C-level executives at an MLS club securing a funded engagement.
Late afternoon you collaborate with AWS Service teams on roadmap priorities then finalize a reusable reference architecture for the vertical. You close the day reviewing portfolio metrics and drafting strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
About the team
The Emerging Technology Team within AWS ProServe NAMER serves as the nucleus of customer cloud transformation orchestrating the adoption and scaling of technologies across enterprise and government organizations. The team consists of consultants with deep expertise spanning AI/ML generative AI data analytics IoT computer vision robotics quantum computing and more.
Their mission centers on transformation consulting emerging tech-led adoption expertise and deep industry context. Leveraging Emerging Tech Adoption Framework (ETAF) they help customers envision prototype and scale emerging technologies using a risk-aware portfolio-based investment approach accelerating business outcomes while developing the next generation of AI solutions.
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating. Thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth: Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
10046
- 8 years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Math or a related field
- Experience in the Sports including familiarity with broadcast/OTT content delivery workflows or venue operations
- Experience building and deploying production AI/ML solutions including ML training/inference pipelines data platform architectures or media processing workflows
- Experience delivering generative AI solutions to production including RAG architectures prompt engineering foundation model integration or agentic workflow orchestration
- AWS Professional-level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional)
- Experience with AWS AI/ML and media services such as Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker AgentCore AWS Elemental MediaLive MediaConvert IVS and Amazon Personalize
- Experience designing data platforms using lakehouse or medallion architectures open table formats (e.g. Apache Iceberg) and streaming technologies (e.g. Kinesis Kafka)
- Knowledge of league data systems and governance frameworks player/biometric data handling content licensing and privacy regulations relevant to sports and media
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. CDK CloudFormation Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with third-party data platforms commonly deployed on cloud infrastructure (e.g. Snowflake Databricks)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA East Palo Alto - 210200.00 - 284300.00 USD annually
USA CA Santa Monica - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA CO Denver - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA GA Atlanta - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA NJ Jersey City - 201000.00 - 272000.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 201000.00 - 272000.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
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