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# Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases, US Specialist Solutions Architects

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $153,600.0 - $207,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Databases, Couchbase Servers, Data as a Services, Relational Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Software Tools, Software Engineering, Product Software Implementation Methods, Database Engines, Web Services, Amazon ElastiCache, IT Architecture, Generative AI, Information Technology, Cassandra, Data Analytics, Non-relational Database, Data Management
- **Published:** June 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9aed153e289eaf06

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software implementation?, * 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

 * 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 software development tools and methodologies
 * Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
 * Deep knowledge and experience with at least one open source relational database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL), or non-relational database (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Couchbase, Neptune, Neo4j), * 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
 * Experience working with end user or developer communities
 * Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
 * Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
 * Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Fluency

## Description

As a Database Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services.

Have you developed complex applications?

Are you an experienced PostgreSQL/NoSQL Platform Specialist? How about DynamoDB, Elasticache, MongoDB or DocumentDB?

Have you migrated Applications from one Database Engine to another?

Have you designed and architected complex database solutions incorporating both relational and non-relational technologies?

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?

As a Database Specialist SA you will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will engage with Database Specialists Sellers and other stakeholders supporting sales activities such as customer discovery, ideating, white board solutioning, presenting, educating, leading technical deep dives, and other technical sales support activities for an assigned US division and territory. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to develop or migrate applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL Server to AWS, eg. RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB or other database services on AWS.

You will focus on customer solutions that depend on databases, designing and deploying future state data services and reference architectures to enable our customers to make the most of AWS managed databases.

Key job responsibilities

 * Provide AWS customers with deep technical expertise and strategic guidance to allow them to effectively use AWS Database Services across their business, both tactically and strategically
 * Collaborate with AWS specialist sales, marketing, and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customers' most challenging business problems
 * Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers' executives, helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation
 * Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on common use cases, industry best practices, helping customers jump-start their AWS migration journey
 * Design and architect complex database solutions based on relational or non-relational technologies
 * Champion industry best practices through technical thought leadership content, including blogs, white papers, and reference architectures
 * Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summit, and other conferences
 * Educate customers on AWS value proposition for Data management workloads, ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments
 * Provide feedback to AWS product teams on customer specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty
 * Stay current with emerging trends in the Database, Analytics, and Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage
 * Travel approximately 25% on average, mostly in the US, supporting customer and stakeholder needs


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