Senior Solution Architect, Project Kuiper

DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,232 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Project Kuiper is looking for experienced, creative, technically and commercially savvy leaders to drive adoption of Kuiper broadband solutions in the telecommunications segment. This is an exciting opportunity to own definition and execution of solution development with Mobile Network Operators and telecom ecosystem partners.

Key job responsibilities
- Be the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and service capabilities.
- Incubate and launch new solutions to enable customer use cases.
- Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the product management and engineering teams to guide the direction of our product offerings and evolution.
- Be creative to help solve technical and commercial blockers and develop new product offerings.
- Support strategic business development and contribute to pricing and deal negotiation
- Focus on complex deals and develop long-term strategic partnerships.
- Create and capture best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts)
- Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring, coaching and mentoring others.

A day in the life
About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Innovation is part of our DNA Our goal is to be Earth's most customer centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., wireless protocols-4G/5G, software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electronics/electrical engineering, or equivalent.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations towards cloud computing.
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
- English language communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working as solution architect working with Telecom wireless and wireline operators / MSOs/ local cable operators/ enterprise organizations.
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
- Experience in a variety of industries, including Telecommunications, energy, utilities, agriculture, finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, and/or manufacturing.
- Business-fluent English, and ability to work with cross-team collaboration.
- Public speaking and writing with a track record of published content, speaking, and ability to influence C-level executives.
- Working with product teams to influence feature and service development, and influencing roadmap through customer feedback.