Sr Mgr, Solutions Architect, Amazon Leo DTD

This role leads the global Solutions Architecture function for Amazon Leo DTD. The Sr Mgr roles owns the function’s strategy, organization, operating model and architecture governance within the broader DTD business organization, and is accountable for making customer integration repeatable across partners.

The role develops solutions to support telecom operators and device partners; serves as the senior technical sponsor for the most consequential customer relationships and allocates the function’s people and investment to scale efficiently in every region.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities
1. Lead global Solutions Architecture function and set the strategy and multi-year plan; own organization design, goals and metrics, headcount and senior-capacity allocation, approved investment priorities, operating cadence, and senior talent and succession.
2. Govern the reference architecture system. Define and solutions and interconnect patterns, architecture review and version discipline; decide what is canonical versus an exception within approved capabilities; and convert repeated customer demand into structured requirements and technical dimensioning for Product Management, Engineering, Finance and Pricing.
3. Lead customer solution architecture and technical commitments. Sponsor the most strategic technical engagements and own customer-specific architectures and the technical content of commitments within approved product capabilities, defined Engineering constraints, and applicable regulatory and security positions.
4. Own customer technical readiness. Translate per-market regulatory, legal, security and service requirements into technical responsibility maps and customer architectures, and define the Solutions Architecture inputs and customer-side acceptance criteria needed for integration and launch readiness.
5. Build the mechanisms that make the function scale. Own customer decision-support models, internal architecture tooling and traceability, the technical commitment register, portfolio-level visibility into readiness and exceptions, and the production-learning loop that continuously improves the reference set.
6. Develop device solution architectures. Translate committed use cases into chipset, module and OEM requirements, reference integrations and readiness plans to meet industry design cycles.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually