Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, Automotive&Manufacturing EMEA SA Team

About the role

The Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, serves as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions. This role involves leading discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology and AI strategy, guiding them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions. Key responsibilities include designing end-to-end solutions, identifying opportunities to accelerate implementation, and resolving complex technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions
• Lead discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology and AI strategy and guide them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions
• Design end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen, driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate implementation through reusable components, parallel workstreams, etc.
• Share knowledge by developing technical content like sample code, presentations, workshops to exemplify best practices and educate customers
• Drive product innovation by gathering customer feedback, translating needs into clear requirements, and partnering with product teams through development
• Resolve complex technical problems through root cause analysis, both for customers and internally
• Contribute strategic planning, recruit and develop talent, build team consensus, and provide guidance to more junior solutions architects

Requirements

• 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
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Qualifications

• Be great fun to work with
• Enjoy working with large, global customers
• Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions

Skills

• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range for this position is $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually in Detroit, MI, and $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually in Jersey City, NJ.

Schedule

Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.