Senior Database Solution Architect, UK

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) Full time
Are you a database specialist with deep experience in relational and/or non-relational database? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a solutions architect to work with our teams to help customers refactor existing workloads, design new cloud-based data solutions and invent the solutions of tomorrow making best use of their data.

At AWS, customer obsession is in our DNA. The successful candidate will become a trusted advisor to our customers and will partner with AWS specialist sales, business development, and product teams to execute a go-to-market strategy, ensure success of our most complex customer engagements, collect, organize, and disseminate the expertise needed to drive database, analytics, and machine learning workloads.

At AWS, we’re hiring highly technical database architects with hands-on capabilities in a combination of commercial, open-source, relational, and non-relational databases to collaborate with our customers and partners in migrating their Database platforms and applications to the cloud.

You will join a highly skilled, dynamic team in bringing the latest in disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to our customers on difficult cost and agility challenges facing many organizations.

The ideal candidate will …

“Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. As the right candidate, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge.

Enjoy working with customers. You have a passion for engaging with customers as a technical architect, designing and building cloud-based database architectures, pro-actively identifying and removing roadblocks to success for some of the world’s largest and most important organizations.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
Collaborate with AWS field sales to support customers with their database workload challenges.
Represent the voice of the customer to internal teams to drive the best outcomes for customers.

Thought Leadership – Produce and validate content like reference architectures, best practice blogs, and other artifacts. Capture best-practices from engineering and field teams, share patterns and solutions and strive to become an industry recognised thought leader in the data space.

Work Closely with other technical specialists worldwide in Database, Analytics, Storage & AI/ML fields to develop the best practices for our customers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR | Manchester, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with Relational and/or Non-Relational Database implementations, operations and/or solution deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or similar Database).
- Technical degree in computer science, software engineering, or mathematics OR equivalent experience;
- Working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps.
- Implementation and tuning experience of Databases including knowledge of Schema Design, Query Tuning and Optimization, and Data Migration and Integration.
- Technical and customer-facing skills. Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Analytics presentation layer expertise including Dashboards, Reporting, and OLAP.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
- Demonstrated ability of being a "trusted advisor" to customers. The Candidate 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.
- Executive speaking and presentation skills – Formal presentations, white boarding, large and small group presentations.
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups
- AWS Certifications, e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS Database Specialty



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