Senior Solution Architect, Amazon
Database Migration Accelerator
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re interested in having a measurable impact on businesses ranging from educational institutions to multi-national corporations – this is the role for you
- We are looking for talented migration specialist/architects that are passionate about databases and migrations, and are enthusiastic about applying bold new ideas to real-world problems
- You will be forward-looking and aware of the latest DB technology offerings (including both relational and NoSQL), and migration methodologies
- You’ll have exceptional problem-solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams
- This position requires a solid technical background, and you should be customer-focused with a passion for the cloud and information technology
- You should have deep understanding in at least one of Oracle or SQL Server, Sybase, or DB2 databases, and knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other AWS native database engines is highly desirable
- Past experience in database migrations and migration technologies is required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Desirable
- Technical and customer-facing skills enabling perception as a "trusted advisor" to customers. He or she 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
What the job involves
- As part of the Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) team you’ll use your experience and real-world know-how to help customers move their database applications to AWS
- Databases and Analytics Services at AWS covers a range of data platforms including Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, as well as AWS Database Migration Service, Data Pipeline, Glue and more
- Engage with companies in a diverse range of industries and verticals
- Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize computing in the cloud
- Work for a company that’s at the forefront of the cloud computing and AI space
- Working with customers, AWS sales, professional services, solution architects and product teams to drive migrations to AWS managed databases
- Assessing customer database workloads, helping qualifying those applications that are suitable for migration and developing a high-level migration plan
- Identifying technical solutions to migration roadblocks and guiding database and application developers to implement them
- Assisting customers in the execution of migration proof-of-concept projects
- Delivering technical workshops and immersion days
- Advising customers throughout the migration lifecycle, earning their trust and satisfaction
- Enabling customers in the use of AWS database and migration products and services
- Identifying new opportunities for AWS to improve our products and innovate on behalf of our customers
- 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
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events
Salary benchmarks
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.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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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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