Sr. Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AGS Database Specialist Solutions Architects

Amazon Web Services, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Database Solutions Architect to design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services for enterprise customers, focusing on high-volume OLTP/OLAP environments and migrations from Oracle/SQL Server to RDS, Aurora, or other platforms.

You will collaborate with AWS specialists, sales, marketing, and product teams to deliver innovative database solutions, lead architectural reviews and workshops, and educate customers on AWS value for production

Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle/SQL Server/NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide Enterprise customers with deep technical expertise to advance AWS Database Services adoption across their operations, from enterprise database management systems to long term data strategy.
• Collaborate with AWS specialist, sales, marketing, and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customer's most challenging business problems
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executives, helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on solving customer's business cases.
• Champion industry best practices through AWS blogs, white-papers, and reference architectures.
• Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits.
• Educate customers on AWS's value proposition for database workloads, ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments
• Provide feedback to AWS product teams on industry-specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.
• Stay current with emerging trends to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage

Skills

Database architecture

Cloud databases

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

AWS RDS

Amazon Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale data challenges in the world today?

As a Database Solutions Architect you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services.

Have you developed complex applications?

Are you an experienced Oracle/SQL Server/NoSQL Platform Specialist?

Have you migrated Applications from one Database Engine to another?

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?

The specialist will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to develop or migrate Applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL*Server to AWS eg. AWS RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms. You will focus on customer solutions such as high volume OLTP/OLAP environments, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data services and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases adoption.

Key job responsibilities

• Provide Enterprise customers with deep technical expertise to advance AWS Database Services adoption across their operations, from enterprise database management systems to long term data strategy.
• Collaborate with AWS specialist, sales, marketing, and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customer's most challenging business problems
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executives, helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on solving customer's business cases.
• Champion industry best practices through AWS blogs, white-papers, and reference architectures.
• Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits.
• Educate customers on AWS's value proposition for database workloads, ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments
• Provide feedback to AWS product teams on industry-specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.
• Stay current with emerging trends to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage

A day in the life

A Database Specialist primary responsibility is to meet with customers, discover their challenges and business outcomes and help them in their journey into the cloud. Within the Database domain, this includes Database sizing/pricing TCO assessments, migration or modernization deep dives and ultimately migration/modernization and operational strategies.

The Database specialist will collaborate with the broader account team on prioritization and engagement strategies that best fit customer priorities.

When the Database Specialist is not engaging customers, they are expected to build/drive thought leadership through speaking events, workshop building and driving feature enhancements with our service teams.

About the team

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