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This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of GenAI integrations at scale in some of the most dynamic and fast-growing market segments. Powered by GenAI, Alexa+ is a new personal AI assistant that gets things done-smarter, more conversational, and more capable, available across a family of devices including screened, non-screened, mobile, FireTV, and Alexa.com. Rebuilt from the ground up, this new version of Alexa uses a state-of-the-art architecture that automatically connects a variety of LLMs, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale.\nIn your role as voice of the developer, and representing Amazon as a senior technical leader, you’ll manage relationships with customer senior leadership, providing technical consultation to key development partners, and lead complex projects with cross-team impact. Responsibilities include proactively identifying future trends and product gaps, developing reusable architectural frameworks to accelerate adoption, and establishing best practices that empower the broader SA community. This position requires operating with a strong product mindset, and leveraging that to translate complex technical concepts into business value for senior leaders while helping partners identify innovative applications for Alexa's capabilities, and make strategic trade-offs to achieve long-term goals. \nThe ideal candidate brings extensive technology solution design experience, proven success leading large-scale cloud architectural implementations, and a track record of driving technical strategy with executive stakeholders. You combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership abilities, enabling you to drive cross-team change, and mentor other architects while building lasting partnerships at the highest levels.\nKey job responsibilities\nTechnical Innovation & Excellence\n- Design and establish large-scale solution design and architectural frameworks that drive consistent implementation across multiple partner portfolios\n- Create reference patterns and LLM optimization standards that simplify complex problems and become adopted both internally and externally\n- Make high judgment technical decisions independently in ambiguous situations, determining appropriate solution strategies with significant business impact\nPartner & Business Impact\n- Drive C-level technical engagement with strategic partners, establishing technology roadmaps that drive Amazon and partner flywheels\n- Establish scalable processes and frameworks that accelerate adoption across categories, not just individual partners\n- Influence Alexa+'s customer and developer experience through synthesis of market trends, competitive intelligence, and strategic partner feedback\nStrategic Leadership & Development\n- Collaborate with product leadership during early formation stages of new capabilities, directly influencing product requirements and go-to-market strategies\n- Accelerate SA community development by mentoring junior architects, performing technical promotion assessments, and establishing team best practices\n- Represent Amazon as a recognized thought leader at major industry events, establishing technical credibility that opens new strategic partnership opportunities\nA day in the life\nWe’re looking for a highly talented and motivated Sr SA to join our Alexa+ team to help bring our partner experiences to life with Generative AI. You’ll engage in deep, technical discussions to design solutions, solve problems, and coordinate Alexa+ feature implementations to raise the bar on the customer experience. You’ll be acting as voice of the developer with our domain, product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps using strong product insights, data-driven analysis, and a working backwards mindset.\nAbout the team\nOur mission is to source and onboard, delightful, useful, and engaging experiences to Alexa+ that helps customers and enterprises get things done. We are a diverse group of technologists who bridge the gap between business development (BD), internal product and engineering teams, and customers.\nBasic qualifications\n- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience\n- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent\n- Working knowledge of LLMs and their application in GenAI applications\nPreferred qualifications\n- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience\n- Experience working with end user or developer communities\n- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nLos 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.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. 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