Amazon Principal Solutions Architect - Database Technologies WWSO Data & AI 

United States, New York, New York 

847438045

AWS has a diverse databases portfolio of services. In this role, as a Principal Solutions Architect, you will:
- Promote technical readiness and capability of database services by driving organizational initiatives across multiple geographies to develop and share best practices.
- Recognize and drive opportunities to lead technical discussions in designing highly available, distributed, resilient, and globally scalable applications and data products using NoSQL technologies and frameworks.
- As a technical advisor you will guide the customer on how to optimize their workloads in the AWS.The ideal candidate will …
Be 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.Innovate and build solutions that are simple. You are always inquisitive, have a thirst to learn and keep up with technology shifts, and yearn to improve yourself continuously. You are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand customer requirements and existing environments, and translate these into configurations in AWS that meet performance, scalability, and availability needs.- Devise Strategy ­and Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services and Partners to define a Database & Analytics Engagement strategy for AWS key accounts.
Diverse Experiences
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- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud