Sr Data Architect, Data Lake, Professional Services

Experience working with data & analytics
- 10+ years of IT consulting/management experience, with demonstrated IT Transformation experience in customer-facing roles.
- Experience working with large multi-national organizations as the Consulting Services lead, Account and/or Relationship Manager
- Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in meeting customer needs.
- A proven track record of managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects for education industry.
- Ability to be mobile and travel to client locations as needed
- Bachelor's degree
- Intermediate English

Job summary

Are you passionate about building successful Data transformations within the Public Sector? Are you a Data Analytics specialist? Do you have Data Warehousing, Hadoop/Data Lake experience? Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale (billions + records) data challenges in the world today? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest data analytic technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will develop, deliver and implement IoT, and data analytics projects that help our customers leverage their data to develop business insights. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as IoT, batch/real-time data processing, Data and Business intelligence.

This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.

Key job responsibilities
- Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.
- Solutions - Deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, creating packaged Data & Analytics service offerings.
- Insights - Work with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementations and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services.
- Innovate - Engaging with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment

About the team

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for public sector customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
- Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Math
- Hands on experience leading large-scale global data warehousing and analytics projects
- Ability to collaborate effectively across organizations
- Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting and Dashboard development
- Demonstrated industry efficiency in the fields of database, data warehousing or data sciences
- Implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Desire and ability to interact with different levels of the organization from development to C-Level executives
- Fluent English