Senior Database Architect for Cloud Migrations & Data

Amazon Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect to design large-scale database and data architectures, guiding complex migrations and modernization for enterprise customers in the Media & Entertainment sector.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to influence migration decisions and share best practices across AWS. Expect leadership in data strategies and public-facing contributions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will translate customer infrastructure challenges into comprehensive data architecture strategies leveraging AWS. You will define and design large-scale Database/Data architectures that accelerate adoption of AWS services across storage, data, and analytics domains.
• You will engage with senior engineers, architects, data leaders, and executives at strategic enterprise customers to influence migration decisions and provide structured feedback to AWS product teams
• Collaborate with business development colleagues to provide technical input into migration GTM strategy and support field marketing through technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements
• Lead complex database architecture and problem solving to unblock customers' most critical data needs and modernization initiatives
• Design and execute data migration strategies, design and implement relational and non-relational data architectures
• Represent the voice of the customer and collaborate with field and central teams to bring migration feedback to product teams
• Act as a thought leader in Database and Data technologies by sharing best practices through AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, migration patterns, and public speaking engagements such as AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent
• Guide and support an internal AWS community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your customers, including the creation of field enablement materials for the broader Solution Architect population
• Partner with AWS Database Competency Partners and ISVs to deliver comprehensive data solutions for M&E customers.

Skills

Database design

Data architecture

Cloud migration

Executive communication

Enterprise migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect to design large-scale database and data architectures, guiding complex migrations and modernization for enterprise customers in the Media & Entertainment sector.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to influence migration decisions and share best practices across AWS. Expect leadership in data strategies and public-facing contributions.