Are you a passionate builder with deep expertise in betting and gaming solutions and want to work with innovative companies transforming the industry? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an exciting opportunity for you. The Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports team is seeking an experienced and motivated technologist with a passion for creating strategies, best practices, and solving complex business challenges focusing on the Betting and Gaming industry.

As a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) for Betting and Gaming at AWS, you'll be responsible for educating customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the Betting and Gaming industry in areas such as real-time wagering platforms, player engagement, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and advanced analytics. You get to work with sports betting operators, online casinos, lottery providers, fantasy sports platforms, and gaming technology vendors to help them build scalable, secure, and compliant solutions with the AWS cloud. You'll provide hands-on architectural guidance for real-life customer projects involving various AWS services and Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions and collaborate with cross-Amazon teams to develop outcome-based holistic solutions for strategic opportunities in the betting and gaming industry.

In this role, you'll be a content creator, a storyteller, and a presenter, building and publishing content and collateral for betting and gaming customers in one-on-one and group settings. You'll work with customers remotely and in person, sharing your expertise and insights. This role requires at least 30% travel, including international travel.

Key job responsibilities
As a Leader, you'll anticipate future trends and identify applications of emerging technologies to enhance betting platforms, gaming operations, player personalization, and responsible gaming initiatives, enabling innovative experiences and effective solutions for our customers.

- Drive the strategy for betting and gaming solutions for customers across sports betting, online casino, lottery, and fantasy sports sectors.
- Architect and deliver innovative, customer-obsessed solutions leveraging AWS services and partner offerings tailored for the betting and gaming industry, with focus on real-time processing, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Create high-quality enablement content, including guidance, blogs, demos, POCs, and presentations, to share your expertise in betting and gaming solutions.
- Deliver written and spoken communications on complex betting platform architecture, gaming operations, player analytics, and regulatory compliance subjects, establishing AWS as the public cloud of choice for organizations in the betting and gaming industry looking to accelerate innovation.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other Solutions Architects working with betting and gaming customers.

A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
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Work/Life Balance
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About the team
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.