Principal Solution Architect US Enterprise, Amazon Shipping

Who are we

Ready to build Amazons next $100B business Were not just entering shippingwere transforming how billions of packages move around the globe. By evolving Amazons legendary fulfillment engine into an agile intelligent shipping network were creating a resilient system that continuously optimizes to deliver on time every time for every business and every customer. Every shipment is more than just a boxit spins the flywheel faster continuously enhancing our logistics network through scale speed and intelligence. As we increase density and reach were revolutionizing shipping for ALL businesses while simultaneously strengthening Amazons own delivery capabilitiesreducing costs and accelerating deliveries across our entire ecosystem.

What will you do

You will be the strategic technical leader for Amazon Shippings largest enterprise customer engagements owning the technical relationship end to end from pre-sales through delivery. You start at the first conversation lead technical discovery and define the target architecture for how the customer integrates with Amazon Shipping.

Enterprise customers run many systems: TMS WMS ERP order management and homegrown platforms often with their own undefined priorities. You will align these on a single well-defined integration architecture resolve the hardest design questions and stay hands-on to make sure what gets built is scalable secure and performant.

As a Principal you operate at the strategic level. You advise the customers senior and executive stakeholders shape how they think about their broader integration strategy and act as their trusted technical advisor through the lifecycle. You drive clarity where the business objective and the strategy are not yet defined. You turn each engagement into lasting capability: reference architectures integration patterns and governance that other architects and customers reuse without you in the room. You feed what you learn in the field back into Amazon Shippings API roadmap and platform direction and you represent Amazon Shipping as a technical thought leader in customer and industry forums.

You will collaborate closely with:
- Enterprise customers as the lead technical owner and strategic advisor pre-sales to delivery
- Customer senior and executive stakeholders aligning them on architecture and approach
- Commercial and Sales teams to shape and win strategic technical engagements
- Product and Engineering teams feeding field insight into the API roadmap and platform
- The customers system integrators and ISVs when an engagement requires it

Who are you

You are a seasoned solution architect who has owned large enterprise customers end to end and operated as a strategic technical advisor to their senior leadership. You walk into ambiguity draw out requirements align stakeholders and commit to an architecture you will stand behind and be measured on.

Key attributes:
- Deep expertise in API development REST cXML EDI and integration patterns
- Proven ownership of enterprise integrations across TMS WMS ERP and OMS systems
- Strength in technical discovery: turning ambiguous undefined problems into a clear architecture
- Strategic influence with customer executives and IT leadership not just engineers
- A record of building reusable mechanisms (reference architectures governance) that scale past one deal
- Thought leadership through industry forums publications and developer communities
- Strategic thinking that connects technical decisions to customer business outcomes
- Customer obsession with a hands-on get-it-done approach

Key job responsibilities
Enterprise Engagement Leadership
- Own the technical relationship with large enterprise customers end to end from pre-sales discovery through delivery as their strategic technical advisor.
- Lead technical discovery and align the customers TMS WMS ERP and OMS systems on a single target architecture staying hands-on through implementation.
- Advise customer Director and VP stakeholders and drive clarity where the business objective and integration strategy are not yet defined.

Architecture and Technical Excellence
- Design enterprise-grade shipping integrations using REST APIs cXML and EDI ensuring scalability security and performance.
- Act as the escalation point for the hardest architectural challenges across the engagement.

Scaling Impact Beyond the Engagement
- Build reusable reference architectures integration patterns and governance that other architects and customers adopt without you in the room.
- Feed field insight into Amazon Shippings API roadmap and platform direction.
- Represent Amazon Shipping as a technical thought leader in customer and industry forums.

A day in the life
Your days balance technical depth with strategic influence. Mornings involve reviewing partner integration metrics meeting with system integrators and validating enterprise architectures. You design API enhancements create reference architectures and guide engineering teams on complex integration
patterns.

Afternoons focus on strategic workpresenting API roadmap priorities to leadership shaping partner ecosystem strategy and facilitating architecture
reviews. You invest in thought leadership through technical content mentoring and developer community engagement.

You collaborate with global integrators product teams engineering commercial stakeholders and enterprise customersbridging deep technical expertise with strategic vision to turn integration challenges into scalable solutions that enable ecosystem growth.

- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications
- 10 years of experience in enterprise-scale technology-driven solutions in logistics shipping or supply chain technology

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers

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.

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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 Santa Monica - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 201000.00 - 272000.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually