Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases, US Specialist Solutions Architects

About the role

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 unwavering 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.

As a Database Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services. You will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will engage with Database Specialists Sellers and other stakeholders supporting sales activities such as customer discovery, ideating, white board solutioning, presenting, educating, leading technical deep dives, and other technical sales support activities for an assigned US division and territory. 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. RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB or other database services on AWS. You will focus on customer solutions that depend on databases, designing and deploying future state data services and reference architectures to enable our customers to make the most of AWS managed databases.

Key job 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
• 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

Basic 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
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• 10+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience, or Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

Pay

• USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually