Sr. Database Specialist SA, Media & Entertainment, ASPI MEGS, ASPI MEGS

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect to lead data architecture and migrations for enterprise customers on AWS.

You will translate complex data challenges into scalable AWS-based architectures, influence migration decisions, and drive modernization across storage, data, and analytics domains. The role emphasizes thought leadership and customer obsession in a high-impact, senior contributor capacity.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in database technologies and data foundation for AI.
• Experience migrating data workloads to AWS at scale.
• Ability to lead enterprise migration programs and communicate trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer infrastructure challenges into data architecture strategies leveraging AWS.
• Define and design large-scale database/data architectures for AWS adoption.
• Engage with senior engineers, architects, data leaders, and executives at enterprise customers.
• Lead complex database architecture to unblock data needs and modernization initiatives.
• Represent customer voice and provide feedback to product teams.
• Share best practices through AWS blogs, whitepapers, and public speaking.

Skills

Database design

Data architecture

Data migration strategies

Enterprise migrations

AWS architecture

Infrastructure as code

Public speaking

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with deep expertise in database design and architecture? Do you have the technical acumen and business savvy to help customers successfully migrate their most critical data workloads to AWS? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) within the Media & Entertainment team as a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect—a senior individual contributor role requiring deep technical expertise in Database technologies and Data Architecture and Data foundation for AI.

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), responsible for driving revenue and accelerating adoption across enterprise customers. We work backwards from our customers' most complex migration challenges to develop and execute go-to-market plans that transform legacy infrastructure into modern, cloud-native architectures. As part of WWSO, you will contribute across the full lifecycle of AWS customer migration initiatives—from initial assessment to post-migration optimization.

Key job 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.

As the ideal candidate, you bring deep technical expertise in enterprise migrations and the business acumen required to lead complex data center exit programs with large enterprises. You have hands-on experience with databases, data migration strategies, application modernization patterns, database migrations, and infrastructure-as-code approaches. You are able to credibly advise senior technical and executive stakeholders on migration trade-offs, risks, and long-term optimization strategies.

Core Responsibilities:

• 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.