Are you a customer-obsessed builder with deep expertise in database design and architecture? Do you have the technical acumen and business savvy to help customers successfully migrate their most critical data workloads to AWS? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) within the Media & Entertainment team as a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect-a senior individual contributor role requiring deep technical expertise in Database technologies and Data Architecture and Data foundation for AI.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will translate customer infrastructure challenges into comprehensive data architecture strategies leveraging AWS. You will define and design large-scale Database/Data architectures that accelerate adoption of AWS services across storage, data, and analytics domains. You will engage with senior engineers, architects, data leaders, and executives at strategic enterprise customers to influence migration decisions and provide structured feedback to AWS product teams.
As the ideal candidate, you bring deep technical expertise in enterprise migrations and the business acumen required to lead complex data center exit programs with large enterprises. You have hands-on experience with databases, data migration strategies, application modernization patterns, database migrations, and infrastructure-as-code approaches. You are able to credibly advise senior technical and executive stakeholders on migration trade-offs, risks, and long-term optimization strategies.
Core Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with business development colleagues to provide technical input into migration GTM strategy and support field marketing through technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements
- Lead complex database architecture and problem solving to unblock customers' most critical data needs and modernization initiatives
- Design and execute data migration strategies, design and implement relational and non-relational data architectures
- Represent the voice of the customer and collaborate with field and central teams to bring migration feedback to product teams
- Act as a thought leader in Database and Data technologies by sharing best practices through AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, migration patterns, and public speaking engagements such as AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent
- Guide and support an internal AWS community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your customers, including the creation of field enablement materials for the broader Solution Architect population
- Partner with AWS Database Competency Partners and ISVs to deliver comprehensive data solutions for M&E customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, San Francisco - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually
USA, NJ, Jersey City - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
