Senior Partner Solution Architect, Global Partner Development

Full job description
DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Solutions Architect III in Amazon Ads partner development organization, you will work with partners to design and implement advertising technology solutions. The role requires strong technical skills and business understanding to help partners successfully build and scale solutions using Amazon Ads APIs and services. You will provide technical leadership and influence both partner and internal stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities
Technical Leadership:
Design and implement complex advertising technology solutions
Lead technical discovery and requirements gathering with partners
Create architectural designs incorporating AI/ML capabilities
Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, and performance requirements
Develop reusable patterns and best practices
Drive adoption of new advertising features

Partner Engagement:
Serve as technical advisor to partner teams
Lead implementation planning and execution
Guide partners through technical decisions
Provide best practice recommendations
Ensure successful solution delivery
Gather and communicate partner feedback

Technical Excellence:
Create technical documentation and implementation guides
Review and optimize solution performance
Conduct architectural reviews
Mentor junior solution architects
Contribute to thought leadership content
Stay current with industry trends

Cross-team Impact:
Work with product teams on feature requirements
Collaborate with engineering on implementations
Support business development initiatives
Share insights across solution architect community
Influence product roadmap decisions

A day in the life
Your day involves designing and reviewing technical solutions for advertising partners, focusing on helping them implement Amazon's advertising capabilities effectively. You lead technical implementation discussions, create architecture diagrams, and provide best practices guidance. Throughout the day, you develop proof of concepts, collect partner feedback, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. You mentor junior architects while ensuring partner solutions are properly implemented and optimized for performance across advertising platforms.

About the team
The Amazon Ads Global Partner Development Solutions Architecture team enables partners to build and scale innovative advertising technology solutions. Working with customer data platforms, systems integrators, agency holding companies, independent agencies, ad servers, and retail media platforms, this global team designs and delivers technical solutions that drive partner success. The team combines deep advertising technology expertise with Amazon's latest capabilities, including AI-driven features, to help partners build scalable, secure, and performant solutions. Through technical leadership and close collaboration with product teams, they influence both partner solutions and Amazon Ads product development, driving innovation across the advertising ecosystem.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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
Experience delivering technical solutions for enterprise customers
Track record of successful partner/customer engagements
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong written and verbal communication abilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
Experience working with end user or developer communities
Experience in advertising/marketing technology industry
Knowledge of Amazon Web Services
Experience developing AI/ML solutions and applications
Technical thought leadership experience
Advanced technical degree
Experience mentoring junior technical staff

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site. Read more