Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases EMEA

29 أكتوبر، 2022

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Job Description

Job summary
Are you an architecture specialist with broad understanding of relational and/or non-relational database Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen, and solution deployment skills to drive database, analytics, and machine learning workloads
Location: UK, Ireland, France, DACH, Italy, Spain and UAE.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a solutions architect to work with our customers and other AWS teams to help customers understand their existing workloads and provide both technical and strategic guidance, along with architectural best-practice on migrating to the cloud.
We can help You develop further:
It's time to bring your hands-on capability to the next level!
And we will enable you to accelerate this. Here are some of the skills we can help you develop further:
o Broaden, and deepen, your cloud experience. Build upon your database expertise to become a cloud guru, becoming your customers trusted advisor on database-centric architectures.
o Build your ability to deliver in a combination of commercial, open-source, relational, and non-relational databases supporting collaboration with our customers and partners in migrating their Database platforms and applications to the cloud.
o Expand your verbal and written communication skills 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.
Key job responsibilities
. Collaborate with AWS field sales to support customers with their database workload plans and 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
. Capture best-practices from engineering and field teams, share patterns and solutions
. Collaborate with AWS field teams to build a strong worldwide database and analytics community.
A day in the life
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team dedicates itself to the support of new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
About the team
You will join a highly skilled, dynamic, Customer facing and Customer-centric Solutions Architecture team in bringing the latest in disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to bear on difficult cost and agility challenges facing many organizations.
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, and/or Redis).
Technical degrees in computer science, software engineering, or mathematics or equivalent experience
Working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps.
Website/web services as well as traditional IT networking, operations, management, and security experience.
Infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization.
Implementation and tuning experience of Databases including knowledge of Schema Design, Query Tuning and Optimization, and Data Migration and Integration.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
You
Are great fun to work with. Our company credo is 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 track record of building customer trust and value highly the relationships you create with them. You love working hand-in-hand with customers, understanding their values and needs, along with their goals and issues. You drive the appropriate designs and patterns from this foundation.
Dive deep into the architecture of your project. You understand how the pieces fit together and, with nothing more than a whiteboard and markers, can take your customers on that journey with you. Because you crave learning, you are never afraid to say I don't know.
Know your databases. You understand how they drive architectures and how to identify database requirements and goals from your customer. You understand the gains that can be found in good database architecture, but know where the pitfalls are too, and work with your customers to chart the correct path.