Pr Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Database at Amazon

Pr Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Database

Job ID: 2836217 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

The WWSO Relational Databases team positions AWS as the best place to run database workloads. Our team helps customers migrate both Commercial and Open-Source databases to the AWS cloud while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential. As a Database Specialist Solution Architect, you will be helping our customers to migrate the most complex large-scale databases to AWS and help customers and partners use Cloud computing web services to build new solutions, faster, and at lower cost.

Key job responsibilities

1. Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
2. Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
3. Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
4. Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
5. 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of database-driven applications or infrastructures
• 7+ years management of technical, customer facing resources
• 7+ years of Oracle Database implementation, operations and/or solution deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context
• 5+ years of implementation, operations and/or solution deployment on OCI
• 10+ years of running workloads on Exadata
• 10+ years of implementation, operations deployment of Oracle RAC-based solutions
• Hands-on experience as a Oracle DBA, data warehouse architect or database developer.
• Knowledge of the underlying infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization
• Implementation and tuning experience of Databases including knowledge of Schema Design, Query Tuning and Optimization, Data Migration and Integration
• Bachelor's degree or Advanced Technical degrees in computer science, software engineering, or mathematics; working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Familiarity with common enterprise services and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
• Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired
• Executive speaking and presentation skills – Formal presentations, white boarding, large and small group presentations.
• Track record of implementing AWS, Azure, OCI services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups
• Analytics layer experience including Dashboards, Reporting, and OLAP.
• Understanding of application, server, and network security is highly desired
• AWS, Azure and/or OCI Certifications
• Exposure to Oracle Apps

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