Senior ANZ Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AGS Specialists Data and AI

Senior ANZ Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AGS Specialists Data and AI

Job ID: 2948287 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists 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. Specialist SAs play a critical role in capturing customer feedback, advocating for roadmap enhancements, and anticipating customer requirements as they work backwards from their needs.

Database SSAs combine technical skills in database technologies with business acumen, and technical sales skills. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster. Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems, collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers, and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earth's Best Employer.

Specialist Solutions Architects are part of the Amazon Global Sales Organization (AGS) which builds and executes go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. Our teams include business development, specialist sales, and specialist solutions architecture, working together to provide customer-obsessed solutions that help people run their businesses more effectively. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as OneTeam.

Key job responsibilities

1. Design best in class database solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.
2. Partner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.
3. Thought Leadership - Evangelize and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
4. Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.
5. Develop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.

This role is part of the Data and AI specialist team for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). As a member of this team you will work with customers and be based out of our Auckland offices. You will focus on customers across ANZ, working directly with customers across industry verticals, from large Enterprises to start-ups, across all stages of their cloud journey.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 8+ years of specific technology domain areas including both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g. key-value, document, graph) databases.
2. 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
3. 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
4. Knowledge of AWS database services and solutions (e.g. Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Technical communication skills; able to bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical requirements.
2. Experience managing databases ranging from 1-10TB in size across multiple platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Netezza, Teradata, Vertica).
3. Experience with database re-platforming, from commercial to open-source engines.
4. Cloud expertise as demonstrated by one or more cloud certifications, with Database related discipline highly preferred.

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