DescriptionAre you a technology leader with an accounting and finance background who is passionate about transforming the accounting world with innovative technology solutions? This job could be the perfect fit for you.Amazon is a fast-paced, dynamic, high-tech company based in Seattle. Amazon’s Global Accounting Technology team is seeking a bar-raising Solution Architect who can build scalable technical solutions, consistently exceed expectations, thrive in a challenging workplace, and actively contribute to our talented team.The ATEAM (Accounting, Tools, Entities, Automation, and Management Reporting) Technology team is a dedicated group of Amazonians in global accounting. We identify accounting business processes for automation, facilitate process improvement workshops, document automation use cases, build the automations, and launch and manage them. Our team’s primary focus is to provide accounting process optimization, standardization, and technology services to help global accounting and finance communities improve efficiency and controllership by reducing procedural frictions and enabling automated solutions for greater productivity.The ATEAM Agile Automation team has begun implementing automation solutions for global accounting. This initiative aims to reduce manual efforts in global accounting, thereby minimizing risks to our financial statements while enhancing productivity, efficiency, and controllership. We are looking for a Solution Architect to build automation solutions for global accounting using AWS services, Alteryx, and internal homegrown automation tools. This role is critical to the success of the automation program and has high visibility with Accounting and FinTech leadership. The person in this role will collaborate with various project stakeholders, other solution architects, software developers, BI engineers, data engineers, AWS infrastructure teams, and accounting managers. The Solution Architect is responsible for developing and deploying Alteryx solutions promptly while meeting Amazon’s highest standards. Key responsibilities include maintaining existing automations in our production environment to ensure smooth month-end and quarter-end close processes, enhancing automations by conducting root cause analyses, and providing solutions for recurring problems. They will also support system integrations with Amazon's internal applications using AWS services. This role requires participation in daily scrum calls with internal team members and providing regular project updates to management.Additional responsibilities include designing internal controls, working with internal InfoSec and Amazon security teams, and ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Once automation use cases are deployed into the production environment, the developer will hand over the use case to the production support team. The core competencies of the support lead are application management, systems analysis, and incident management, with a focus on process standardization, application configuration, business rules/logic, and data management. Adequate technical skills are required to address customer needs quickly and provide analysis and remedies across many tasks. Critical success factors for this function include skilled application expertise, standardized intake, SLA management, application configuration best practices, development, end-user training, and exceptional incident management engagement.Key job responsibilities Tackle accounting-technology challenges with scalable solutions delivered in a quick and nimble fashion. Help define front-end architectures, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience. Contribute to defining best practices for solution-design and development. Collaborate closely with customers, program- managers, data engineers, software-developers and other solutions-architects to deliver the product. Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process- improvement as a member of an autonomous team. Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product-goals, and developing best-practices. Python programming-skills. Mentor/support the growth of other Solution Architects. Focus on long-term business-technology objectives and targeted business outcomes by clarifying automation technology-capabilities and assessing and mitigating security-risks. Ensure platform scale, availability, and stability, involvement in automation development cycles, and provide best-in-class support-services. Own application-management, systems analysis, and incident management, with a focus on process standardization, application configuration, business rules/logic, and data-management. Possess adequate technical skills to quickly address customer needs and provide analysis and remedies across many tasks. The critical success factors for this function are skilled application expertise, standardized intake, SLA management, application configuration best practices, development, end-user training, and outstanding incident management engagement.About the teamThe ATEAM (Accounting, Tools, Entities, Automation, and Management Reporting) Technology team is a dedicated group of Amazonians in accounting who will identify processes for automation, facilitate process improvement workshops, document automation use cases, build the automation, and launch and manage automations.Our team’s primary focus is to provide accounting process optimization, standardization, and technology services to help Global Accounting and Finance communities in efforts to improve efficiency and controllership, by reducing procedural frictions and enabling automated solutions for greater productivity. The solutions we deliver are usually short to mid-term in nature compared to Fintech-solutions that are designed for long-term scalability.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
10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
Experience working in a fast-paced environment similar to a high-tech start-up with responsibility and influencing teams in a matrixed environment.
Experience with GRC controls executions like SAS, GRC Next, and Lambda violations.
MBA or Master’s degree with a technology/finance/accounting background preferred.
Experience building data analytics platforms.
Experience with AWS technologies and services.
ERP General Ledger and reporting experience with one or more Fortune 500 companies.
Basic working knowledge in accounting/finance/tax.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
