Principal Solution Architect - 3P Enablement, Amazon Shipping

About the role

Ready to build Amazon's next $100B business? We're not just entering shipping—we're 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