Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases, Canada Specialist Solutions Architects

Amazon • Toronto, ON

29d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Database Specialist Solutions Architect (SA), you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services. You will collaborate with customers and partners on key engagements, working with Database Specialists Sellers and other stakeholders to support sales activities. This includes customer discovery, ideation, whiteboarding, presentations, education, and technical deep dives. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects for migrating applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL Server to AWS services such as RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, or other AWS database services. Your focus will be on customer solutions that depend on databases, designing and deploying future state data services and reference architectures to enable customers to maximize the use of AWS managed databases.

Requirements

• 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
• Deep knowledge and experience with at least one commercial or open source relational database (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), or non-relational database (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB)

Nice To Haves

• 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

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.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed