Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.

Amazon Music is hiring a senior technologist to build personalized music experiences with our external partners, including major hardware, software, and services providers leading the wearable, automotive, and consumer electronics sectors (including big screens).

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solutions Architect to join the partner engineering team in our dynamic Business Development (BD) org within Amazon Music. Our products help customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on an exciting variety of device form factors. Our team partners with major automotive, big screen, consumer electronics and wearable manufacturers to design, implement and continuously improve a customized, curated and seamless music experience. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about working with a diverse set of partners to design and build Music experiences, being empathetic to their challenges and with a willingness to champion their problems for prioritization. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer or technical architect and has a strong understanding of large-scale robust application architecture and solutions. In collaboration with business development and product development, you will partner with various tech teams from across the industry to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient API integrations with Amazon Music. As a trusted partner advisor, you will help organizations understand best practices around current integration options, and develop partner relationships to bring new ideas and requests to the Amazon Music team to continually strengthen our products. You will have the opportunity to help build mind share and ubiquity of Amazon Music and to foster customer use, service adoption, and breadth of device choice available to our customers.

The Senior Solutions Architect in this role -

- Enjoys working with partners. You a are passionate about educating and training partners and supporting them in designing, and building innovative Amazon Music experiences.

- Has experience bridging internal products (e.g. from AWS) with external partners, especially in the hardware space, and knows how to mentor others.

- Our team brings music to new platforms and devices, and every day is a chance to be creative in paths forward while embracing the peculiarities of the music landscape. Be bold in making bets on the future of music enjoyment and device adoption.

- Has a solid understanding of large-scale robust application architecture and solutions. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones in the face of shifting and evolving device form factors, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture solutions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class applications of Amazon Music.

- Successfully partners with multiple internal development teams to jointly own the APIs that third-party devices and apps use to provide Amazon Music to customers. Partner types include speaker manufacturers, car OEMs and consumer apps. We are always interested in working with new partners and form factors to maximize experimentation on devices where customers enjoy music. Our mission is to bring Amazon Music everywhere relevant.

Key job responsibilities
- Ensure success in building and integrating compelling Amazon Music experiences into partner devices and applications as a key member of the business development and partner music team
- Formulate and support customer adoption and revenue objectives through integration of Amazon Music with external partners in partnership with the business development team.
- Educate partners of all sizes on the value of Amazon Music integration, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure integrations are designed for successful deployment and adoption
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to partner teams considering or already using Amazon Music integrations
- Proactively capture and share best-practice knowledge of Amazon Music integration, and share back examples of difficulties and friction to Amazon Music teams
- Author or otherwise contribute to partner-facing publications, documentation, training materials, and FAQs· Build relationships with senior technical individuals inside and outside Amazon to enable them to become Amazon Music adoption advocates
- Act as a technical liaison between partners’ and service engineering teams and support. Identify gaps/issues and help drive product improvements to address.