This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
Are you a database specialist with deep experience in relational and/or non-relational database Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge business acumen and strong interpersonal skills Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Specialists Solutions Architect to work with our customers and other AWS teams to help customers refactor existing workloads and design new cloud based solutions.
At AWS customer obsession is in our DNA. The successful candidate will become a trusted advisor to our customers and will partner with AWS specialist sales business development and product teams to execute a go to market strategy ensure success of our most complex customer engagements collect organized and disseminate expertise needed to drive database analytics and machine learning workloads.
At AWS were hiring highly technical database architects with hands-on capabilities in a combination of commercial open-source relational and non-relational databases to collaborate with our customers and partners in migrating their Database platforms and applications to the cloud.
You will join a highly skilled dynamic Go-To Market team bringing the latest in disruptive business differentiating cloud computing technologies to bear on difficult cost and agility challenges facing many organizations.
The ideal candidate will
Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is Work hard. Have fun. Make history. As the right candidate you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge.
Enjoy working with customers. You have a passion for engaging with customers both at a business and deep technical capacity designing and building cloud based database architectures pro-actively identifying and removing roadblocks to success for some of the worlds largest and most important organizations.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with AWS field business development and sales teams to support customers with their database workload challenges. - Represent the voice of the customer to internal teams to drive the best outcomes for customers.
- Thought Leadership Produce and validate content like reference architectures best practice blogs ad public speaking
- Capture best-practices from engineering and field teams share patterns and solutions
- Collaborate with AWS field teams to build a strong worldwide database and analytics community
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- 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
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server load balancing HA/DR & storage architectures
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.