Principal Solution Architect - 3P Enablement, Amazon Shipping

About the role

Who are we?

We are transforming how billions of packages move around the globe. By evolving Amazon's legendary fulfillment engine into an agile, intelligent shipping network, we're creating a resilient system that continuously optimizes to deliver on time, every time, for every business and every customer.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Amazon Shipping's partner ecosystem, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and scalability across a global network
• Shape the strategy for the Amazon Shipping App Center, driving innovation in the marketplace ecosystem and enabling partner-built applications
• Establish and enforce technical governance frameworks to standardize and optimize partner integration solutions
• Represent Amazon Shipping in technical forums, panels, and industry events, advocating for best practices and standards in shipping technology
• Drive thought leadership through technical publications, white papers, and collaboration with developer communities
• Partner with senior product leaders in early formation of new products and services, influencing trade-off decisions and ensuring customer requirements are consistently met throughout development phases
• Design and implement enterprise-grade shipping integrations for platforms such as Manhattan, SAP, Oracle Transportation Management, and others, ensuring technical excellence and reliability
• Provide architectural leadership for large-scale, partner-driven enterprise shipping transformations, guiding design, implementation, and technical governance
• Collaborate with global system integrators and ISVs to validate complex customer architectures and deliver robust technical solutions
• Act as a technical escalation point for resolving architectural challenges, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of partner integrations
• Engineer next-generation integration patterns, leveraging technologies like REST APIs, MCPs, and EDI to build industry-leading solutions
• Lead the evolution of Amazon Shipping's API platform, defining capabilities that enable advanced partner use cases and improving developer experiences
• Collaborate with internal engineering and product teams to influence Amazon Shipping's API roadmap and prioritize features that drive partner success
• Create reference architectures, integration patterns, and technical documentation that accelerate partner onboarding
• Drive continuous improvement of developer experience through feedback loops with partners and integrators

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise-scale, technology-driven solutions in logistics, shipping, or supply chain technology