Global Relational DB Solutions Architecture Lead

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Specialist Solutions Architecture for Relational Databases to own the worldwide strategy for Aurora, RDS, DMS, and database migrations.

You will lead a distributed team of senior specialists and engage with strategic customers on architecture design, migrations, and performance optimization. This hands-on leadership role blends deep technical credibility with customer obsession, partner engagement, and scalable enablement to drive cost,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Own the worldwide specialist SA strategy for the commercial and open source database portfolio, with Amazon Aurora at the center.
• Lead, coach, and grow a distributed team of specialist solutions architects operating as the definitive technical authorities on relational databases at AWS.
• Engage directly with strategic customers on their most complex challenges: migration from Oracle and SQL Server, data modeling, performance and cost optimization, high availability, and large-scale architecture design.
• Represent the voice of the customer back to Aurora, RDS, and DMS service teams, influencing roadmap and closing capability gaps.
• Partner with service Engineering Leaders, GTM leadership, TFCs, and regional SA leaders to align specialist investment to customer need and business priority.
• Build scalable mechanisms (reusable content, enablement, tooling, and repeatable engagement models) that multiply your team's impact across the field.
• Set and raise the technical bar, fostering a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, and operational rigor.

Skills

Management experience

Infrastructure architecture

Database architecture

Networking experience

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Specialist Solutions Architecture for Relational Databases to own the worldwide strategy for Aurora, RDS, DMS, and database migrations.

You will lead a distributed team of senior specialists and engage with strategic customers on architecture design, migrations, and performance optimization. This hands-on leadership role blends deep technical credibility with customer obsession, partner engagement, and scalable enablement to drive cost,