Solutions Architect, Amazon Publisher Services

About the role

Amazon Publisher Services (APS) helps digital publishers around the world build and grow thriving businesses. We provide services and advanced technologies to web, mobile app and advanced TV publishers of all sizes, including many of comScore's global top 100, to help them monetize their content with demand from multiple buyers. Our server-side header bidding solutions are fast and reliable across devices, handling billions of queries per day, delivering ads in milliseconds. The result is more profitable advertising related systems for publishers and more relevant ads/content for customers.

We are seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to help continue to scale and improve our publisher integrations across the APS ecosystem. In this role you will oversee launching, optimizing, and scaling technical integrations across web and mobile-inapp integrations. The ideal candidate will also bring experience in working with international customers, as well as experience and knowledge around international requirements such as GDPR.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and develop processes for providing technical solutions to publishers including evaluating, on-boarding, integrating, troubleshooting, and scaling.
• Identify areas for automation, improvement and scalability to support the technical integrations and work with the team to drive these to execution.
• Drive features to optimize integrations and improve operational excellence by collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Account teams.
• Be the voice of the publisher and translate partner feedback into product and engineering requirements.
• Own and analyze long-term vs. short-term opportunities and recommend the right trade-offs that will ultimately benefit our partners.
• Own technical agenda for business reviews with partners.
• Produce and oversee comprehensive technical documentation to simplify and scale partner integrations.
• Champion new product requirements and features for development.
• Be a subject matter expert on advertising integrations and handling privacy requirements such as GDPR.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 4+ Years of hands-on experience in solutions architecture, software development or ad ops at top-tier programmatic bidders (SSPs or DSPs).
• 4+ years of experience working with browser debugging tools such as Chrome Dev Tools, Charles Proxy or Wireshark.
• 4+ years of experience working with client-side web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
• Knowledge of programmatic advertising space, including header bidding.
• Knowledge and experience working with international privacy requirements such as GDPR.
• Analytical and data-driven - familiarity with data analysis tools to process and analyze large data sets with AI or at least one database query language

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

• USA, CA, Palo Alto - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually
• USA, CA, Santa Monica - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 144,500.00 - 195,400.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually