Sr. WW Specialist SA, In-Memory

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customers most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO youll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

Within WWSO this position is part of the Worldwide Specialist Team where you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing In-Memory architectures leveraging AWS services. In-Memory Database Specialist Solutions Architect will work closely with the Database Services team Business Development and Sales to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption and revenue of AWS. You will work with the largest companies in the world to design flexible and cost-effective cloud-based solutions. You will develop whitepapers blogs reference architectures and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage AWS services. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help other SAs understand how to integrate AWS caching services into customer architectures. As a trusted advisor and strategic leader with technical expertise in In-Memory/NoSQL database systems you will share recommendations around security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate building key data solutions and applications on AWS for our customers.

AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Key job responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts solutions and initiatives.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
- Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

A day in the life
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About the team

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) works backwards from customers to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses and pride themselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

AWS is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace to deliver the best results for our customers. We celebrate the diverse ways we work. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team. You may also reach them directly by visiting please 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

- 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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