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. You will provide hands-on architectural guidance from design through production operation, guide customers on RDS operational best practices, and partner with the RDS service team to surface customer patterns and advocate for feature enhancements.

Responsibilities

• 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

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.)

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.