Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Database, Data & AI GTM

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 (GTM) 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 who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing Graph architectures that leverage Amazon Neptune. The Graph Solutions Architect will partner 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 caching solutions. You will develop white papers blogs reference implementations and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage AWS and Amazon Neptune. 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.

In this role you will:

Be great fun to work with. At AWS we have a credo of Work hard. Have fun. Make this role 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 and make a big impact.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer and pre-sales experience. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.


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.
- Foster technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers to further the adoption of AWS services and technologies
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community

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- 7 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent or 7 years of Information Technology (IT) experience
- Knowledge of operating systems hardware storage network security database administration and cloud infrastructure
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
- 5 years design and implementation experience with Graph Databases such as Neo4J TigerGraph including Graph data modeling and Query languages.
- An understanding of computing deployment models as they relate to databases and analytics.
- Working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps.

- Experience in NoSQL at an expert level
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
- AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises.
- Hands-on experience with services related to databases highly desirable particularly Amazon Aurora Lambda Amazon Neptune Amazon OpenSearch Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 Container Service Amazon Kinesis etc.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at IL Chicago - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA MA Boston - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 169000.00 - 228600.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually