Senior Solutions Architect, Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports

DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports (MEGS) Industry Business Unit. In this role, you will be a trusted technical advisor to broadcasters, content creators, and production companies, helping them reimagine their workflows using AWS cloud technologies. You'll work with customers across broadcast operations, live production, content creation, and media supply chain to accelerate their digital transformation. The role requires approximately 10% travel (including international).

Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement: Work backward from the customer to drive adoption of AWS services for media and entertainment workloads, with specific focus on broadcast, streaming, and content production use cases

Technical Leadership: Understand and anticipate customer business needs, accelerating their ability to innovate by building working prototypes and industry-specific solutions

Architecture & Design: Run technical workshops and advise customers on architectural decisions for cloud-based media solutions

Best Practices: Educate customers to ensure their solutions follow AWS best practices for scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence in media environments

Thought Leadership: Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, and blog posts focused on media technology

External Communication: Participate in industry conferences and events, sharing knowledge with the broader AWS solutions architect community and media industry

Product Feedback: Drive customer requirements alignment with AWS service teams' roadmaps, acting as the voice of media and entertainment customers

A day in the life
Your days blend technical depth with strategic advisory work across broadcasters and content creators. You'll architect cloud solutions for live sports streaming and broadcast workflows, build proof-of-concepts with AWS media services, collaborate with account teams on customer workshops, and share field feedback with AWS product teams. Throughout the week, you balance hands-on customer engagements with thought leadership-mentoring junior SAs, presenting at industry conferences, and documenting architectural patterns

About the team
About the team
AWS Global Sales (AGS) aims to deliver the highest level of sales support to our customers. Is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. Join dynamic and diverse AWS Sales team, focused on large enterprise's digital transformation.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience solving problems with technology in the Media & Entertainment Industry experience
- Experience in technical solution design and customer engagement
- Ability to communicate fluently in English and Portuguese in technical and business settings (verbal and written)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
- Experience working with AWS Services
- Experience working with or evaluating AI systems
- Experience writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, and contributing to open source
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish

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