Job Description
Senior Database Solution Architect, UK & Ireland
DESCRIPTION
Are you a database specialist with deep experience in relational and/or non-relational databases? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a solutions architect to work with our teams to help customers refactor existing workloads, design new cloud-based data solutions and invent the solutions of tomorrow making best use of their data.
At AWS, customer obsession is in our DNA. The successful candidate will become a trusted advisor to our customers and will partner with AWS specialist sales, business development, and product teams to execute a go-to-market strategy, ensure success of our most complex customer engagements, collect, organize, and disseminate the expertise needed to drive database, analytics, and machine learning workloads.
At AWS, we're hiring highly technical database architects with hands-on capabilities in a combination of commercial, open-source, relational, and non-relational databases to collaborate with our customers and partners in migrating their Database platforms and applications to the cloud.
You will join a highly skilled, dynamic team in bringing the latest in disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to our customers on difficult cost and agility challenges facing many organizations.
The ideal candidate will ...
"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. You have a passion for engaging with customers as a technical architect, designing and building cloud-based database architectures, pro-actively identifying and removing roadblocks to success for some of the world's largest and most important organizations.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with AWS field sales to support customers with their database workload challenges.
- Represent the voice of the customer to internal teams to drive the best outcomes for customers.
- Thought Leadership - Produce and validate content like reference architectures, best practice blogs, and other artifacts. Capture best-practices from engineering and field teams, share patterns and solutions and strive to become an industry recognised thought leader in the data space.
- Work closely with other technical specialists worldwide in Database, Analytics, Storage & AI/ML fields to develop the best practices for our customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Relational and/or Non-Relational Database implementations, operations and/or solution deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or similar Database).
- Technical degree in computer science, software engineering, or mathematics OR equivalent experience;
- Working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps.
- Implementation and tuning experience of Databases including knowledge of Schema Design, Query Tuning and Optimization, and Data Migration and Integration.
- Technical and customer-facing skills. Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Analytics presentation layer expertise including Dashboards, Reporting, and OLAP.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
- Demonstrated ability of being a "trusted advisor" to customers. The candidate will be able to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives, as well as easily interact and give guidance to software developers, IT operations staff, and system architects.
- Executive speaking and presentation skills - Formal presentations, white boarding, large and small group presentations.
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups.
- AWS Certifications, e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS Database Specialty.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.