Senior Database Solutions Architect — Cloud Data Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Database Specialist Solutions Architect to design complete solution architectures using AWS database services.

You will collaborate with customers, partners, and sales teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects and support migrations to AWS databases such as RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB. The role requires deep database knowledge across relational and non-relational technologies and involves frequent collaboration with executives and technical

Qualifications

• 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.
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• Deep knowledge and experience with at least one open source relational database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL), or non-relational database (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Couchbase, Neptune, Neo4j)

Responsibilities

• Provide AWS customers with deep technical expertise and strategic guidance to allow them to effectively use AWS Database Services across their business, both tactically and strategically.
• 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, industry best practices, helping customers jump-start their AWS migration journey.
• Design and architect complex database solutions based on relational or non-relational technologies.
• Champion industry best practices through technical thought leadership content, including 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 technologies to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage.
• Travel approximately 25% on average, mostly in the US, supporting customer and stakeholder needs.

Skills

Cloud computing

Executive communication

Software development tools

Database knowledge

Tools

Databases tools

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Database Specialist Solutions Architect to design complete solution architectures using AWS database services.

You will collaborate with customers, partners, and sales teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects and support migrations to AWS databases such as RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB. The role requires deep database knowledge across relational and non-relational technologies and involves frequent collaboration with executives and technical