Help mold the future of cloud-based content and services. If you have the right blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer obsession, curiosity and creativity, you may just be right for the Principal Solutions Architect role. In this role, you will be working with top-tier companies and developers to help develop incredible experiences that will wow customers on a variety Amazon products. Are you the kind of hands-on technical professional who can help our partners? You must possess a unique combination of deep technical skills and business acumen as well as a do-what-it-takes attitude to ensure our partners are delivering a delightful end user experience.
Ideally, you’re someone who can write code with the best of them, but also wants to help guide the broader industry towards a technology you believe in. You have immediate credibility with technologists and developers at all levels, from students to CIOs. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so. You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement; you want to be out front leading it. If this sounds like you, we’d like to speak with you.
Responsibilities
· Engage with partners’ developers, architects, hardware engineers and project managers
· Educate partners of all sizes on Amazon technology and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment
· Work with Amazon product teams to define technical requirements
· Capture and share best-practice knowledge that future Amazon partners can utilize
· Help Amazon business development identify leads for new potential partnerships

· Ten or more years of experience in the design, coding and implementation of complex IT systems
· Experience with two or more development languages such as Java, JavaScript or Python
· Experience in a customer-facing, sales-aligned role such as consultant, solutions engineer or solutions architect
· A technical undergraduate degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or related discipline
· Native-level of Japanese, business-level of English skills

· An advanced degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or related discipline
· Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
· Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results