Senior Ads Partner Solution Architect, Solutions Architect Advertising

As a Senior Solutions Architect III in Amazon Ads partner tech 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 tech partners , independent agencies 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. Own and drive internal organization goals that contribute to partner success.

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 influencing innovation through a partner ecosystem with either solutions or programs that have demonstrated success at enterprise customers

- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in software development

- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication

- Experience delivering technical solutions for enterprise customers

- AI Fundamentals - MCP (Model Context Protocol), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), basic GenAI concepts

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Experience working with end user or developer communities

- Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies

- Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers

- Experience in advertising/marketing technology industry

- Experience developing AI/ML solutions and applications

- Technical thought leadership experience

- Advanced technical degree

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 Company’s 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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