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.
As a Database Solutions Architect (SA) you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services. The Database Specialist SA will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will engage with Database Specialists Sellers and other stakeholders supporting sales activities such as customer discovery ideating white board solutioning presenting educating leading technical deep dives and other technical sales support activities for an assigned US division and territory. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects technical workshops and support implementation projects in order to develop or migrate Applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL Server to AWS eg. AWS RDS Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms.
You will focus on customer solutions such as OLTP/OLAP environments designing and deploying future state data services and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS Aurora DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases adoption.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide AWS customers with deep technical expertise to advance AWS Database Services adoption across their operations from enterprise database management systems to longer term data strategy
- Collaborate with AWS specialist sales marketing and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customers most challenging business problems
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers executives helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation
- Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on common use cases including industry best practices helping customers jump-start their AWS migration journey
- Champion industry best practices through technical thought leadership content including AWS blogs white-papers and reference architectures
- Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent AWS Summit and other conferences
- Educate customers on AWS value proposition for Data management workloads ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments
- Provide feedback to AWS product teams on customer specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty
- Stay current with emerging trends in the Database Analytics and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage
- Travel approximately 25% on average mostly in the US supporting customer and stakeholder needs.
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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
- 3 years deep knowledge and experience with at least one commercial or open source relational database (e.g. Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL MySQL) or non-relational database (e.g. MongoDB Cassandra DynamoDB).
- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
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