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

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Salt Lake City, UT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $176,600.0 - $239,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data as a Services, Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Database Engines, Web Services, Apache Spark, IT Architecture, Generative AI, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Apache Kafka, Data Management
- **Published:** June 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gb7tab

## About the Role

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

 - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

 - 10+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience, or Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field

Preferred Qualifications

 - 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

## 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 Oracle/SQL Server/NoSQL Platform Specialist? How about PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Casandra, or DynamoDB?

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

 * 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, Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.


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