Description:
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. As domain experts, SSAs also participate in field engagement and enablement, producing content such as blogs and workshops for customers, partners, and the AWS Technical Field.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
- Design best in class database solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.
- Partner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.
- 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.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.
A day in the life
Watch the video to find out what it’s like to be a Solutions Architect at AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOiNYVIAngs
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.
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.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas including both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g. key-value, document, graph) databases.- 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
- Knowledge of AWS database services and and solutions (e.g. Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB) and their architecture and infrastructure needs- Technical communication skills; able to bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical requirements
- Experience managing databases ranging from 1-10TB in size across multiple platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Netezza, Teradata, Vertica)
- Experience with database re-platforming, from commercial to open-source engines
- Cloud expertise as demonstrated by one or more cloud certifications, with Database related discipline highly preferred
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
8 Apr 2025;
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