Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases EMEA i Stockholm

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?

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 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, and other artifacts
• 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.

• 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.

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.



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