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Amazon Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Leo for Government in Standortuebergreifend - Virtual, Germany
Description
Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The mission of Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) is to leverage the Leo space network and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to United States and allied government customers. This position will be working on the Product Management Team within ALG with significant interaction with the Leo Government Business Development team and Government customers.
This position may require access to export-controlled information (ECI) subject to EAR and ITAR. Final employment decision is contingent upon satisfactory completion of export control screenings and obtaining any necessary export licenses or approvals, based on nationality, citizenship, and other factors considered by applicable export control regulations.
Key job responsibilities
We have an immediate opening for a Sr Solutions Architect to support the Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) team focusing on European government customers. This position will be based in in the Munich Germany area.
This position will be part of the ALG team working with Business Development and customers to define Leo Government families of products within Project Leo’s broadband space network for high throughput, low latency broadband communications. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and define new communications technology with few legacy constraints. The team develops requirements and architectures for Leo Government products and analyzes performance such as overall throughput, latency, and system availability. This team also works closely with customers, business development and the engineering team to ensure that the product will meet customer requirements and presents a good business opportunity for Amazon Leo for Government.
In this role you will:
• Work with business development and customers to help understand and refine their use cases and operational problems to solve
• Work with Engineering to invent new products or product features
• Write product roadmaps, product description documents, and engineering requirements documents for products and product families
• Create detailed product requirements documents based on an intimate knowledge of the specific customer verticals (local, state, federal, DoD, intelligence community) including use case prioritization, feature definition and product roadmap
• Work with leadership team to set the customer strategy and make appropriate high-judgment trade-offs between features and speed-to-launch
• Research and identify new opportunities to innovate on behalf of our customers
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Write proposals based on product and service offerings of the ALG Team.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Experience in Space Vehicle/Satellite Operations, Space Communications or related industry
Experience in working directly with government officials and regulatory bodies
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with end user or developer communities
Experience in a senior customer-facing role
Experience working with senior European government customers.
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