Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, In-Memory Database , Data & AI GTM
About the role
As an AWS Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will be a technologist with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.
Within the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing In-Memory architectures leveraging AWS services. You will work closely with the Database Services team, Business Development and Sales to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption and revenue of AWS. You will work with the largest companies in the world to design flexible and cost-effective cloud-based solutions. As a trusted advisor and strategic leader with technical expertise in In-Memory/NoSQL database systems, you will share recommendations around security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate building key data solutions and applications on AWS for our customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
- Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.
- Develop whitepapers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage AWS services.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (java, python, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or 6+ years of technical work experience
- Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration and cloud infrastructure
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
- Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
- Experience in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
- 5+ years design and implementation experience with NoSQL technologies and Key-value stores such as ElastiCache, Aerospike, Redis, Memcached, including NoSQL data modeling.
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Deep knowledge of and experience with Redis
- Hands-on experience with services related to databases highly desirable, particularly Amazon Aurora, Lambda, Amazon Elasticache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 Container Service, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave
Pay
This position includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Annual base salary ranges by location:
- USA, CA, Mountain View: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00
- USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00
- USA, VA, Arlington: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00
- USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00