Senior Solutions Architect - Database Technologies, WWSO Data & AI

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Are you an expert in relational and non-relational database technologies who has hands on experience in architecting and building solutions? Do you like to solve the most complex and large-scale database challenges in the world today? Do you have deep expertise in designing, developing, implementing, and running mission critical systems for workloads including high performance transaction processing , or real-time analytics, or data warehousing, or other data driven applications at internet scale? Do you want to have an impact in the development and use of new technologies and frameworks? Do you like to gain the deepest customer insights using Cloud computing technologies? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers use Cloud computing web services to build new solutions, faster, and at lower cost?

AWS has a diverse databases portfolio of services. In this role, as a Principal Solutions Architect, you will:
- Promote technical readiness and capability of database services by driving organizational initiatives across multiple geographies to develop and share best practices.
- Collaborate with our customer, partners, and AWS engineering teams to solve for enterprise problems like Database Migrations, or build design patterns for Cloud Native, Serverless, Mobile Backends, and Microservices based applications on the cloud.
- Engage to architect and design for our customers modernizing to build data driven applications, and drive the evolution of the AWS Services by innovating around capabilities like event logging, streaming, graph, location aware, and messaging.
- Recognize and drive opportunities to lead technical discussions in designing highly available, distributed, resilient, and globally scalable applications and data products using NoSQL technologies and frameworks.
- As a technical advisor you will guide the customer on how to optimize their workloads in the AWS.

With this role, you will have deep expertise in one or more technology domains across relational and non-relational databases. The role will allow you to focus on database technologies on AWS, including and not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Elasticache, Cassandra, Timestream, and Neptune. The role has worldwide scope, and could result in up to 25% travel.

Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

The ideal candidate will …
Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. As the right candidate, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge.

Enjoy working with customers and partners. You have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud based solutions for some of the world’s largest and most important organizations.

Innovate and build solutions that are simple. You are always inquisitive, have a thirst to learn and keep up with technology shifts, and yearn to improve yourself continuously. You are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.

Dive Deep and be Pragmatic. You keep a keen eye on details, roll your sleeves up and are skeptical when metrics and anecdotes differ. You evaluate your body of work to bring the biggest impact.


Key job responsibilities
- Understand customer requirements and existing environments, and translate these into configurations in AWS that meet performance, scalability, and availability needs.
- Design Customer Solutions­, collaborate with AWS field, services, sales, training and support teams, to help partners and customers learn to use Amazon Databases.
- Devise Strategy ­and Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services and Partners to define a Database & Analytics Engagement strategy for AWS key accounts.
- Extract best-practice knowledge, and patterns from these engagements for sharing with the worldwide AWS solutions architect community and produce customer facing reference architectures.
- Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical solutions al