Sr Solution Architect, Music BD Growth and Partnerships

Position: Sr Solution Architect, Amazon Music  BD Growth and Partnerships
Description

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert live streams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service:
Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

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Amazon Music is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join the Amazon Music BD Growth & Partnerships team as the senior technical owner of our partner integrations. This is a technical leadership role, not a support or account management function. You will be the primary technical point of contact for our most strategic external partners, the person who translates Amazon Music's API and platform capabilities into high-quality integration reality, and the person who raises the bar on how we scale partner onboarding across a growing and increasingly diverse portfolio.

This role sits at the intersection of solutions architecture, technical program management, and developer experience. You will drive end-to-end delivery of partner integrations by coordinating across external partner engineering teams and a wide set of internal Amazon Music product and technology stakeholders - including Consumer Platform Technologies, Automotive & Connected Devices, Big Screens, Ticketing, and Customer Experience. Getting integrations shipped on time and to bar requires as much program discipline as it does technical depth: you own the plan, the blockers, and the outcome.

You will own not just your partner portfolio but the SA practice itself - defining integration design standards, technical review frameworks, partner certification criteria, and the self-service onboarding mechanisms that are central to our partnership led growth.

You will bring structure to ambiguity, build reusable systems rather than one-off solutions, and represent the voice of the partner in our product and engineering decisions. You will be expected to drive outcomes and hold accountability across teams without direct authority.

Key job responsibilities

** Partner Integration Ownership*
* Serve as the primary technical owner between Amazon Music and a portfolio of external partners spanning ticketing, automotive OEMs, big screen platforms, wearables, mobile apps, social platforms, and emerging surfaces. Guide partners through the full integration lifecycle - from API design consultation and architecture review through implementation, certification, and production launch. Own integration health for your portfolio: triage inbound issues, reproduce and diagnose failures, route to the correct owning team, and drive resolution with clear SLAs and partner-facing communication that maintains trust and momentum.

** Technical Program Management & Cross-Functional Delivery*
* Own end-to-end technical delivery of partner integrations - not just the architecture, but the plan, the timeline, the blockers, and the shipped result. Act as the connective tissue between external partner engineering teams and the internal Amazon Music product and technology organizations they depend on (Music Product Technology including Automotive & Connected Devices, Big Screens, CXI, Legal, and BD). Manage milestones, surface risks early, escalate blockers with context and a proposed resolution path, and drive accountability across stakeholders who do not report to you.

Integrations in your portfolio land on time, to quality bar, with clean post-launch handoffs - and when they don't, you already have a recovery plan underway.

** Technical Leadership & Architecture*
* Conduct architecture and design reviews for new and evolving partner integrations, ensuring solutions are secure, performant, and aligned with Amazon Music platform standards and a 99.5%+ reliability bar. Lead technical feasibility assessments with Business Development for prospective deals. Partner with the platform engineering team to transition existing partners to the next-generation API platform - providing technical guidance, hands-on debugging support, and proactive communication of breaking changes.

** Developer Platform & Self-Service Onboarding*
* Own and evolve the SA practice: define integration design standards, technical review frameworks, and partner certification criteria that scale beyond individual SA bandwidth.

** Scalable Assets & Knowledge Infrastructure*
* Build and maintain reusable technical assets that multiply SA…