Sr. Database Specialist SA, AGS-EMEA-Europe North

Are you passionate about helping customers build database and cloud solutions? Come join us

At Amazon, we've been investing deeply in building the right solutions that allow you to derive the most value from your database infrastructure. AWS is looking for a solutions architect for our Database team, who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) helping customers to design complex solutions. As part of the team, you will work closely with Europe North customers across industry verticals (Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Manufacturing, Technology, Health Care and Life Sciences, Retail, etc.) to enable large-scale use cases and drive the adoption of advanced AWS services. You will interact with other Solution Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers to fully leverage AWS.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the AWS Europe North Specialist Solutions Architecture team your work will include:

• Working closely with our product and field teams and 3rd party model providers, you will help enable new capabilities for our customers to develop and deploy data workloads on AWS infrastructure

• Design best in class database infrastructure solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.

• You will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy database and data strategies.

• Partner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.

• You will also work closely with account teams, research scientists, and product teams to drive model implementations and new solutions.

• Thought Leadership - Evangelize and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.

• Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.

• Develop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.

A day in the life
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- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Deep knowledge and experience on at least one commercial relational database (Oracle, SQL Server, IBM2), or open source database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB)
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals Knowledge of cloud architecture Deep knowledge and experience on at least one commercial relational database (Oracle, SQL Server, IBM2), or open source database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB)

- Cloud Technology Certifications (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Knowledge of non-relational databases such as mongodb, couchdb, redis

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