Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - Database, Data & AI

About the role

This role serves as the technical advisor for AWS's key customers running or migrating to RDS for Oracle and Oracle Database @AWS. The primary focus is on architecting, migrating, and operating RDS Oracle workloads.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on architectural guidance from design through production operation.
• Guide customers on RDS operational best practices including performance & scaling, high availability & durability, monitoring & observability, maintenance & patching, backup & recovery, security and operational hygiene.
• Design and validate RDS Oracle architectures that leverage RDS-specific capabilities, ensuring customers realize the full value of the platform.
• Partner with the RDS service team as the voice of the customer, surfacing recurring pain points, advocating for feature enhancements, and participating in roadmap reviews.
• Engage with customer engineers in whiteboard sessions, architecture reviews, and technical deep dives, providing candid guidance and pushing back diplomatically when a proposed design will not hold up at scale.
• Develop and publish technical thought leadership content including blogs, reference architectures, white papers, and re-usable artifacts, that elevate the broader Oracle community on AWS.
• Advise customers complex database migrations.
• Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, Oracle AI World, and customer-facing workshops.
• Stay current with Oracle developments (new major versions, ecosystem, tooling) and translate those advancements into actionable guidance for AWS customers.

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.
• Experience in Oracle DB, or experience in software development and experience in technical support.
• Experience owning and leading significant projects from concept to deployment.
• Experience architecting or operating Oracle solutions at scale (multi-TB databases, tens of thousands of connections, cross-region replication).
• Have software development experience (Python, Java, etc.), and fluency with AI tooling (Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, etc.).