Amazon is hiring: Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Business in Washington

Principal 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.

Our mission is to build the most technically robust and strategically impactful ecosystem for business buying. Every day, we innovate, engineer, and solve complex problems, ensuring that Amazon Business continues to lead in procurement technology. If you are passionate about shaping technical strategy, building cutting-edge solutions, and tackling complex integration challenges, join us in shaping the future of business procurement.

Amazon Business is seeking a Principal Partner Solutions Architect to lead the technical direction of our growing partner ecosystem. This is a high-impact, senior technical leadership role that blends strategic vision, hands-on architecture, and collaboration with partners and internal teams. You will drive innovation in procurement technology, delivering sophisticated, scalable solutions alongside procurement platforms, global system integrators, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise, architectural leadership skills, and the ability to influence technical strategy across Amazon Business and its partners. This role focuses heavily on engineering-driven solutions that extend the reach and functionality of Amazon Business's APIs, integrations, and marketplace technologies.

Key job responsibilities

1. Define and drive the technical strategy for Amazon Business’s partner ecosystem, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and scalability across a global network.
2. Design and implement enterprise-grade procurement integrations for platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, and others, ensuring technical excellence and reliability.
3. Lead the evolution of Amazon Business’s API platform, defining capabilities that enable advanced partner use cases and improve developer experiences.
4. Provide architectural leadership for large-scale, partner-driven enterprise procurement transformations, guiding design, implementation, and technical governance.
5. Collaborate with global system integrators and ISVs to validate complex customer architectures and deliver robust technical solutions.
6. Act as a technical escalation point for resolving architectural challenges, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of partner integrations.
7. Shape the strategy for the Amazon Business App Center, driving innovation in the marketplace ecosystem and enabling partner-built applications.
8. Establish and enforce technical governance frameworks to standardize and optimize partner integration solutions.
9. Collaborate with internal engineering and product teams to influence Amazon Business’s API roadmap and prioritize features that drive partner success.
10. Represent Amazon Business in technical forums, panels, and industry events, advocating for best practices and standards in B2B commerce.
11. Drive thought leadership through technical publications, white papers, and collaboration with developer communities.
12. Engineer next-generation integration patterns, leveraging technologies like REST APIs, cXML, and EDI to build industry-leading solutions.

Minimum Requirements

1. Enterprise-scale, technology-driven solutions in B2B commerce or procurement technology.
2. Experience architecting complex technical integrations with platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, or similar systems.
3. Experience in API development, REST APIs, cXML, EDI, and other integration standards, with a focus on building scalable and secure architectures.
4. Experience working with global system integrators and managing large-scale technical transformations.
5. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
6. Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
7. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and the ability to leverage AWS tools and services for advanced integration solutions.
8. Ability to work cross-functionally to engage with engineering teams, product leaders, and C-level stakeholders, delivering technical strategies that drive innovation.
9. Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of best practices and shape technical standards across partner ecosystems.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit this link for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit this link. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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