Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Media & Entertainment
DESCRIPTION
Do you like to build? Are you passionate about the Media and Entertainment, Games, and Sports industries? Are you excited by all things that make content flow, grow, and excite viewers? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect (SA) who will be responsible for the technology strategy and senior level relationships with our enterprise media customers, as well as thought leadership in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry, with a particular focus on Broadcast, Media Supply Chain and Monetization domains.
The AWS Solutions Architect (SA) is responsible for educating customers, partners, systems integrators, and strategic consultancies on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the M&E, Games and Sports industries. They help with hands-on architecture for real-life customer projects involving AWS services & Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions. The SA builds and publishes content and collateral, and presents to customers in 1:1 and 1:many settings. They work with customers remotely and in person.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We are a global team with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Key job responsibilities
You will be a subject matter expert on industry topics related to Media and Entertainment, Games and Sports. You will anticipate future trends and identify applications of emerging technologies to reduce friction, eliminate waste, and re-invent consumer workflows. In addition you'll help drive thought leadership around Broadcast, Media Supply Chain & Monetization. You will deliver written and spoken communications to establish AWS as the public cloud of choice for media organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth and improve return on assets.
You will work with many of the following use-cases:
• Live event production on the AWS cloud
• Channel playout origination
• Master Control rooms
• Advertising signaling and insertion
• Distribution and monitoring
• Broadcast Headend
• Post production
• Media Archives and Asset Management
• Metadata Management
• Content QC, Localization and Preparation workflows
• Data Lakes & Data Science
• Content Monetization strategies
• Customer 360 and CDP
• Personalization
Strong verbal and written communications skills including fluent English as well as Japanese are basic requirements.
About the team
You will be part of a team of worldwide AWS Media and Entertainment Specialist Solutions Architects engaging customers locally and sharing knowledge globally. We all learn from a diverse pool of expertise coupled with on the ground practical knowledge gained from Working Backwards from our customer needs.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of experience working with content ingest, media archive, enhancement, and delivery workflows including knowledge of content production, direct-to-consumer, big data analytics, MAM, content lakes, and content metadata
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- * Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer and partner landscape, identify opportunities and overcome technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of AWS services.
- * Expert level ability to understand the business domain of the customer or partner and the business problems the customer or partner is facing, with the intent to solve the business problems.
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