Senior Ad Tech Solutions Architect, Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports

Are you a passionate builder at the intersection of advertising technology and Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports? AWS is looking for a technical leader to drive our customers' Ad Tech / Mar Tech strategy, helping them unlock new content monetization opportunities.

As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS, you'll be responsible for educating customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the M&E, Games, and Sports industries in advertising and marketing. You'll provide hands-on architectural guidance for customer projects involving various AWS services and Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions. Additionally, you'll collaborate with cross-Amazon teams to develop holistic solutions for strategic industry opportunities.

In this role, you'll be a content creator, a storyteller, and a presenter, building and publishing content and collateral for customers in one-on-one and group settings. You'll work with customers remotely and in person, sharing your expertise and insights. This role requires at least 30% travel, including international travel.



Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you'll stay current on emerging trends and identify applications of new technologies to reduce friction, eliminate waste, and help reinvent consumer data platforms with direct applications towards personalized consumer experiences and ads, tools and applications for ad-tech/ad-management/ad-serving platforms and ad-publishing, and marketing-tech with impacts on better content monetization for our customers.

• Support the strategy for Content Monetization for customers.
• Architect and deliver innovative, customer-obsessed solutions leveraging AWS services and partner offerings
• Develop and maintain relationships with key industry players, contributing to thought leadership and helping shape industry trends
• Create high-quality enablement content, including guidance, blogs, demos, POCs, and presentations, to share your expertise
• Engage with customers, partners, and industry events to inspire and educate on the transformative potential of AWS solutions
• Deliver written and spoken communications on complex ad-technology/content monetization subjects and help establish AWS as the cloud of choice for industry organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth and improve return on assets

A day in the life
About the team
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences, or experience in similar environments
- 5+ years of performance in an online advertising role and familiarity with advertising products and ad serving technologies experience
- Experience with and deep understanding of advertising technologies (i.e., ad server, DSP)
- Experience using Linux
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Experience in data science, business analytics, business intelligence, or similar experience in big data environments
- Experience leading stakeholder engagements and presentations with senior and international leaders
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Hands-on experience designing or operating real-time bidding (RTB) systems, including bid-stream ingestion, auction logic, and low-latency decisioning at scale
- Experience with AI-powered coding assistants and agentic development workflows

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, Culver City - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, FL, Miami - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, GA, Atlanta - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually