Solutions Architect, Selling Partner API, Selling Partner Developer Services

Solutions Architect, Selling Partner API, Selling Partner Developer Services

Amazon Selling Partner API (SP-API) is the next generation suite of API-based automation functionality for Amazon's Selling Partners. We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated Solutions Architect, who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and customer-facing experience. This Solutions Architect will have an opportunity to work with customers and internal teams to build scalable, secure applications that are compliant with Amazon policies, and remediate security gaps within existing applications.

The Solutions Architect role is a unique balance of technical depth and customer-facing experience to work with external customers and internal teams to craft scalable, secure solutions.

As trusted customer advisors, Solutions Architects help organizations understand the opportunities to develop and integrate with Selling Partner APIs. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to drive adoption of SP-API within organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. You should be comfortable building technical credibility with API Developers, Solution Architects, Product Managers and C-level stakeholders.

The ability to link technology with measurable business value is critical to a Solutions Architect role. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. As a key member of the technology team, ensure success in building secure applications, software and services on the Selling Partner API.
2. Ensure existing and emerging Selling Partner API solutions comply with Selling Partner API acceptable use policies, security standards, and best practices.
3. Accelerate business outcomes by developing technical products that accelerate secure API development journey such as reference architectures, code samples etc.
4. Provide technical support and architectural guidance for security controls to API-developers.
5. Write code samples, tutorials, white-papers and technical articles for our developer community, capturing and sharing the best practices for security.
6. Work with customers to understand how they are using our API services, and provide feedback to development teams.
7. Act as a technical liaison between customer, support & engineering, and business teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
2. 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
3. 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
4. Business level Japanese and English language skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
2. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
3. Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective.

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