Solution Architect

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation and help internal teams while doing so Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you

Amazon's Finance Technology organization (FinTech) builds and maintains the finance technology platforms and services that enable new business growth, compliance with financial and tax reporting obligations, and analysis of our financial data. Through our products, we aim to maximize time spent by Finance teams on high value analysis, reduce the growth of operating expenses, and improve the vendor experience.

This role will focus on Project Accounting space, where we are building systems that service the needs of accounting , tax and finance team worldwide and strive to automate transactions creation and posting while maintaining the granularity needed for recording, budgeting and reporting.

We are looking for a a Solution Architect . Our ideal candidate is customer focused and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. You have a knack for helping the organization understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to help guide a project to success.

In your role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build PFS using Amazon's utility computing web services (Amazon EC2 compute, Amazon S3 storage, Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, Amazon CloudFront, etc.) . You will partner with accounting and tax stakeholders and will strive to earn their trust. You will work directly with your customers and will constantly innovate on their behalf. You will be a great negotiator and enjoy working with diverse mindsets.

In this role you will be responsible for creating finance systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You should insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. The systems we own are responsible for trillions of financial events that would rank among the largest countries in the world by GDP. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly-available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats.

As a technology leader, you will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation with a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.

Key job responsibilities

- Serve as a key member to ensure success in building applications and services on the AWS platform for our internal accounting, finance and tax teams.
- Execute projects within an Agile/Scrum environment helping ensure a timely and successful delivery of value
- Participate in business reviews with executive leadership and provide status updates.
- Understand the use of Oracle Financial Applications (OFA) and other internal Amazon systems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities

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