Principal Solution Architect - 3P Enablement, Amazon Shipping

Partner Ecosystem Strategy & Technical Leadership

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.

Enterprise Integration Architecture & Design

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.

API Platform Evolution & Developer Experience

Lead the evolution of Amazon Shipping's API platform, defining capabilities that enable advanced partner use cases and improve 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

Work closely with product teams to ensure partner requirements are reflected in platform capabilities and roadmap priorities.

Partner with commercial teams on ecosystem strategy, partner selection, and go-to-market approaches.

Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, technical debt reduction, and scalability improvements.

Engage with enterprise customers to understand integration challenges and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Build relationships with key partners and integrators to drive adoption of best practices and technical standards.

Technical Governance & Standards

Establish technical governance frameworks that ensure consistency, quality, and security across partner integrations.

Define integration certification processes and technical requirements for partner solutions.

Create and maintain technical standards documentation, integration guides, and certification criteria.

Monitor partner integration health and proactively identify opportunities for optimization.