Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Monetization, Media & Entertainment

Do you like to build? Are you passionate about AdTech/MarTech in Media, Entertainment and Sports industries? Are you excited by Content Monetization strategy? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a technical leader in our solution architecture team who will be responsible for leading the strategy for our lighthouse Media & Entertainment (M&E) customer around AdTech/MarTech solutions leading to improved Content Monetization, as well as thought leadership in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry via education both written and in-person events. The AWS Principal, Solutions Architect (SA) Lead is responsible for educating customers, systems integrators, and strategic consultancies on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the Media & Entertainment industry particularly in the advertising and marketing. They help with hands-on architecture to real-life customer projects involving various AWS services, Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions. They also work with cross Amazon teams such as Amazon Advertising and corporate development to come up with outcome based holistic solutions for our strategic M&E opportunities. The Principal, SA Lead builds and publishes content and collateral, and presents to customers in 1:1 and 1:many settings. They work with customers remotely and in person.
This role consists of at least 30% travel, including international.
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Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.
Key job responsibilities
This Principal, Solutions Architect Leader will work deep in the M&E, Sports, AdTech/MarTech industries with computing/big data technologies. This role will see around corners and identify applications of emerging technologies to reduce friction, eliminate waste, and re-invent the consumer data platforms with direct applications towards personalization/consumer experiences, personalized ads as well as industry/cloud-based tools and applications towards ad-tech/ad-management/ad-serving platforms and ad-publishing as well as marketing tech with impacts on better content monetization for our customers.
This position will work with:
- Big data analytics/Consumer Data Platforms;
- Advertising Technology/workflow
- Marketing Technology/workflow
- Storage systems for media and entertainment such as Content Lakes and Content Archives, and Media Asset Management and Production Asset Management systems
- Modern Direct-To-Consumer delivery platforms and associated technologies such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, SSAI, ultra-low latency streaming,
The Solutions Architect leader will also experience modern data systems including:
- Machine Learning, Neural Networks and applications of Artificial Intelligence (such as Personalization) relevant to Media & Entertainment organizations
- Audience analytics, player analytics, QOE systems, and design patterns for interactive OTT applications
- Serverless compute platforms and architecture patterns
- Storage and architectural patterns around distributed systems
- Big Data Analytics
The Solutions Architect Leader will deliver written and spoken communications on complex ad-technology/content monetization subjects, as well as establishe AWS as the public cloud of choice for broadcasters and media organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth and improve return on assets.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA