Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Principal Solutions Architect – Alexa Smart Home

  • The City (London)
  • IT development

Job description



DESCRIPTION

Salary: Competitive
Location: London
Opening Date: 20 November 2019
Closing Date for applications: 21 December 2019

The Alexa Smart Home team is looking for an exceptional Principal Solutions Architect with strong technical and business acumen in Europe for Dash Replenishment Service (DRS). DRS is part of Amazon's Alexa Smart Home Team that focuses on providing smart replenishment capabilities for connected devices. (e.g., a coffee maker that automatically reorders pods before supply runs out).

As Principal Solutions Architect, you will serve at the forefront of smart home innovation working with some of the largest device manufacturers in the world to develop scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that delight customers and accelerate the adoption of smart home usage and smart replenishment. You will serve in a dual role – externally focused as the technical leader to interface with our partners, and internally focused to liaise with teams across Alexa's Smart Home organization including engineering, product, marketing, program management, and business development to represent the needs of our partners.

To be successful as a Principal Solutions Architect you will need to:
· Lead the Solutions Architecture function for Europe and work closely with senior solutions architects internationally to build best practices, tools, and systems that impact and scale the business.
· Identify, define, and execute the strategic initiatives we will pursue. You will develop crisp strategy documents, present to cross-functional teams, and own a number of priority goals for the business.
· Own the smart home developer technical experience for DRS, including creating best-in-class technical documentation, templates, and reference tools for device manufacturers that help accelerate their time to market and expand DRS across their product portfolios.
· Be customer obsessed. Bring your knowledge of technology and customer experience design to solving complex problems and creating elegant solutions that device manufacturers' using DRS can delight their customers with.
· Be scrappy. The Smart Home team operates like a start-up – we move fast, learn, and adapt along the way. We're looking for someone willing to roll up their sleeves as an individual contributor, solve problems using data and good judgement, and be comfortable working with a high degree of ambiguity.
· Be a leader and an influencer. Smart Home is on the cutting edge of consumer-facing IoT. You will be able to inform and influence manufacturers' IoT product roadmaps and convince them of the benefits of automatic replenishment as a strategic part of their IoT plans.

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Several years of experience evangelizing and building consumer-facing technology solutions for external partners, with prior experience in sales engineering and/or solutions architecture.
· Several years software development experience in understanding and troubleshooting code and communicating technical issues with engineering and product stakeholders.
· Several years in business development or technical sales
· Deep understanding of IT and cloud computing, including transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
· Direct experience building and delivering IoT solutions.
· Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and a high degree of comfort with executive audiences.
· Ability to understand and articulate API design and cloud architecture.
· Experience delivering solutions in highly ambiguous environments.
· Experience designing, building and delivering mobile applications
· Bachelor's degree in a technical field

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