Solutions Architect, Amazon Business

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion dollar global business. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential.

Amazon Business is looking for a Solutions Architect who is passionate about designing and implementing integration-focused solutions for large enterprise customers. Our Solutions Architects are experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with excellent interpersonal and customer facing skills. Amazon Business Solutions Architects have technical expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), eProcurement integrations, Single Sign-On systems, and REST API based integrations.

Key job responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect, you will lead technical integrations for customers and partners while working with internal Business Development, Professional Services, Sales, Product and Engineering teams, to coordinate new product integrations and launches. You will develop and execute operational process improvements while managing on-going integrations with customers and partners. You will lead integrations from technical discovery / scoping through implementation and post-production support. You will need to be an influencer and be able to negotiate technical and functional requirements. You will design and implement technical integration solutions to solve complex business problems for Amazon Business’s largest customers and partners.

A day in the life

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish technical credibility in the sales cycle and collaborate with Sales to drive adoption of Amazon Business’s integration-focused products and features.
• Educate customers and partners on the value proposition of leveraging Amazon Business’s integration-focused products and features.
• Lead technical projects to integrate the Amazon Business marketplace with customers, partners and communicate directly with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in deep technical architectural discussions and design exercises to optimize customer and partner integrations with Amazon Business’s integration-focused products and features.
• Build deep relationships with the customer’s and partner’s senior technical leaders to enable them leverage Amazon Business’s integration-focused products and features.
• Capture and share best practices with Amazon Business’s integration community.
• Ability to interpret complex business requirements to implement technical solutions.
• Partner with Professional Services, Sales, Customer, Product / Engineering teams to drive innovation of Amazon Business’s integration-focused products and features.
• Identify bottlenecks, suggest solutions, and drive teams to implement solutions. Coordinate work with several internal and external teams.

About the team

The Global Integration team owns the technical integration of customer and partner systems with AB’s integration-focused products. Today, these products include Punchout, PunchIn, Direct-Ordering API, e-Invoice, SSO, and APIs (Product Search, Reconciliation, Reporting). We collaborate with internal teams (Partner-Management, ProServe, Sales) to drive adoption of these integration-focused products. We also capture and convey technical integration best practices and future technology trends while providing technical guidance, training, and support for these products to customers, partners, and internal teams. We drive the evolution of AB’s integration-focused products and features by providing direct feedback from customers / partners to the product-engineering teams developing these offerings.

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