Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Business

Principal Solutions Architect

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $25 billion dollar global business. At Amazon Business, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech and retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations re-imagine buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes, unlocking our potential worldwide.

Amazon Business offers a unique opportunity to cater to an extensive and varied market segment. Our focus lies in creating solutions that empower businesses to easily find, research, and purchase products and services. Our selection is vast and accessible across multiple devices, marketplaces, and regions. Our clientele encompasses a broad spectrum, from individual professionals and small businesses to large institutions. Recognizing that our business customers have distinct needs compared to traditional Amazon customers, we are continuously evolving. This includes enhancing how we display our selection, pricing our products, and tailoring the customer experience to meet these unique requirements.

Amazon Business is looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to lead our strategic advancement in the field of B2B digital commerce and e-procurement. This pivotal role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise, high-level strategic thinking, and strong leadership skills. The successful candidate will drive innovative solutions at scale, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and integration protocols to redefine e-commerce for enterprise-level clients.

As a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Business, you will play a pivotal role in driving advanced technical integrations for our key customers and partners, while also fostering collaboration across the broader Amazon ecosystem. Your responsibilities involve leading integrations from technical discovery and scoping to implementation and post-production support. This role requires close coordination with internal teams, including Business Development, Professional Services, Sales, Product, and Engineering, to strategically manage new product integrations and launches.

In addition to developing and executing operational process improvements and managing ongoing integrations, your role will extend to engaging with various Amazonian teams and initiatives. This pan-Amazonian involvement will be crucial in harnessing insights, expertise, and innovations from across the company to deliver comprehensive solutions that address the complex business challenges of Amazon Business's largest customers and partners.

As an influential leader and skilled negotiator, you will balance technical and functional requirements, designing and implementing sophisticated technical integration solutions. Your vision and leadership will not only set the standard for excellence in Amazon Business's service offerings but also contribute to the broader strategic objectives of Amazon as a whole, ensuring alignment and synergy across different divisions and initiatives.

Key job responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Amazon Business's customer ecosystem, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and scalability across a global network.
• Design and implement enterprise-grade procurement integrations for platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, and others, ensuring technical excellence and reliability.
• Lead the evolution of Amazon Business's API platform, defining capabilities that enable advanced customer use cases and improve developer experiences.
• Provide architectural leadership for large-scale, customer-driven enterprise procurement transformations, guiding design, implementation, and technical governance.
• Collaborate with global system integrators and ISVs to validate complex customer architectures and deliver robust technical solutions.
• Act as a technical escalation point for resolving architectural challenges, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of customer integrations.
• Shape the strategy for the Amazon Business App Center, driving innovation in the marketplace ecosystem and enabling custom-built applications.
• Establish and enforce technical governance frameworks to standardize and optimize customer integration solutions.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and product teams to influence Amazon Business's API roadmap and prioritize features that drive customer success.
• Represent Amazon Business in technical forums, panels, and industry events, advocating for best practices and standards in B2B commerce.
• Drive thought leadership through technical publications, white papers, and collaboration with developer communities.
• Engineer next-generation integration patterns, leveraging technologies like REST APIs, cXML, and EDI to build industry-leading solutions.