Senior Database Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon
US Specialist Solutions Architects
$138.2-239k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$138.2-239k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Deep knowledge and experience with at least one commercial or open source relational database (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), or non-relational database (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
Desirable
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
What the job involves
- As a Database Solutions Architect (SA) you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services
- The Database Specialist SA will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements
- You will engage with Database Specialists Sellers and other stakeholders supporting sales activities such as customer discovery, ideating, white board solutioning, presenting, educating, leading technical deep dives, and other technical sales support activities for an assigned US division and territory
- You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to develop or migrate Applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL Server to AWS eg. AWS RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms
- You will focus on customer solutions such as OLTP/OLAP environments, designing and deploying future state data services and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases adoption
- Provide AWS customers with deep technical expertise to advance AWS Database Services adoption across their operations, from enterprise database management systems to longer term data strategy
- Collaborate with AWS specialist, sales, marketing, and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customers' most challenging business problems
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers' executives, helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation
- Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on common use cases, including industry best practices, helping customers jump-start their AWS migration journey
- Champion industry best practices through technical thought leadership content, including AWS blogs, white-papers, and reference architectures
- Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summit, and other conferences
- Educate customers on AWS value proposition for Data management workloads, ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments
- Provide feedback to AWS product teams on customer specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty
- Stay current with emerging trends in the Database, Analytics, and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage
- Travel approximately 25% on average, mostly in the US, supporting customer and stakeholder needs
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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