Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect

DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about building applications with NoSQL databases? Do you love helping customers select and use the right data technology for their application requirements? Do you want to be part of a team who helps build the future of databases at Amazon Web Services? Come join us
Amazon Web Services is looking for an experienced NoSQL Solutions Architect, who will be the subject matter expert for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility), a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You will get a chance to work with some of the most prominent startups, as well as some of the largest enterprises, to help them architect scalable NoSQL solutions using DocumentDB. You will dive deep into customer challenges and work with service teams to create solutions that solve customer needs.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Be the recognized authority for Amazon DocumentDB subject matter expertise across .
- Collaborate with field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help customers learn about and use Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility).
- Provide definitive guidance for customers in choosing the right database services and approaches.
- Be a trusted collaborator for the Amazon DocumentDB service team as the voice of the customer for defining and prioritizing service features.
- Lead enablement by training Solution Architects, Professional Services Consultants, and Technical Account Managers.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge with customers and the worldwide solution architect community.
- Contribute to the Database Blog, service documentation, and reference architectures.
- Present at industry events to educate customers and evangelize and DocumentDB.
- Open to domestic and international travel up to 35%.
Key job responsibilities
Engage with customers and critical AWS business partners such as sales, business development, services teams, professional services, partners, and support.
Hire, onboard, train, and develop new NoSQL database Specialist Solutions Architects from internal and external sources.
Educate commercial customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to design purpose-built database solutions for successful deployment in the cloud.
Build and coach the team on the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions so they can transfer deep technical skills to customers who are considering or using AWS.
Capture, share and scale best-practice knowledge amongst customers, and the AWS solutions architect community.
Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be "cloud advocates."
Act as a conduit and liaison between customers and service engineering teams and shape service offerings.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years design and implementation experience with NoSQL technologies such as DocumentDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, including NoSQL data modeling.
- 3+ years software architecture and development experience using languages such as Java, Python, Go, and Node.js.
- A degree in computer science, software engineering, or mathematics or 10 years equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge of the underlying infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization.
- An understanding of computing deployment models as they relate to databases and analytics and working knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile methodologies and DevOps.