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 constant 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.
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
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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)
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
- Fluency in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
Skills
Key technical skills include:
- Experience with multiple AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Knowledge of AWS networking and security services
- Experience with database design and optimization
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D insurance, EAP, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, and more.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually.
Schedule
Travel approximately 25% on average, mostly in the US, supporting customer and stakeholder needs.