Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - OpenSearch , OpenSearch Specialist Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA). AWS 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 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

OpenSearch is an open-source, Apache License v2 suite under the Linux Foundation, supporting a broad range of workloads. Amazon OpenSearch is a managed service that makes it simple to run OpenSearch in the AWS cloud. Are you passionate about building search, observability, and Generative AI applications with OpenSearch? AWS is seeking a customer-obsessed and technically driven OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect.

As a member of the Specialist SA team in WWSO, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert for Amazon OpenSearch, helping customers architect scalable, secure, and performant search, analytics solutions. You’ll collaborate with solution architects, product teams, and sales to deliver strategic guidance, deep technical expertise, and thought leadership in areas like semantic search, observability, and large-scale log analytics. Whether it’s advising startups on search architecture, observability, and security solutions, or helping enterprises integrate OpenSearch with GenAI workflows, you’ll play a key role in accelerating customer innovation., * Provide deep technical expertise for customer engagements involving OpenSearch, designing and deploying scalable, high-performance search and analytics solutions.

• Lead architectural reviews, migration assessments, and workshops focused on search, log analytics, observability, and GenAI-based use cases for our customers.
• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
• Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
• Build and nurture AWS’s global OpenSearch expert community while creating technical enablement resources for Solutions Architects worldwide.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events and Webinars, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Help customers accelerate their Generative AI deployments with OpenSearch vector store

• 7+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
• 5+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop,OpenSearch, Elastic or Lucene/SOLR experience, * Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or Cloud
• Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or 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, Santa Clara - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

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