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Posted date: Jul 09, 2025
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Estimated salary: $224,400
Range: $164,500 - $284,300
Description
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.Are you an expert in relational and non-relational database technologies who has hands on experience in architecting and building solutions? Do you like to solve the most complex and large-scale database challenges in the world today? Do you have deep expertise in designing, developing, implementing, and running mission critical systems for workloads including high performance transaction processing , or real-time analytics, or data warehousing, or other data driven applications at internet scale? Do you want to have an impact in the development and use of new technologies and frameworks? Do you like to gain the deepest customer insights using Cloud computing technologies? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers use Cloud computing web services to build new solutions, faster, and at lower cost?
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.
- Collaborate with our customer, partners, and AWS engineering teams to solve for enterprise problems like Database Migrations, or build design patterns for Cloud Native, Serverless, Mobile Backends, and Microservices based applications on the cloud.
- Engage to architect and design for our customers modernizing to build data driven applications, and drive the evolution of the AWS Services by innovating around capabilities like event logging, streaming, graph, location aware, and messaging.
- 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.
With this role, you will have deep expertise in one or more technology domains across relational and non-relational databases. The role will allow you to focus on database technologies on AWS, including and not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Elasticache, Cassandra, Timestream, and Neptune. The role has worldwide scope, and could result in up to 25% travel.
Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.
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.
Enjoy working with customers and partners. You have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud based solutions for some of the world’s largest and most important organizations.
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.
Dive Deep and be Pragmatic. You keep a keen eye on details, roll your sleeves up and are skeptical when metrics and anecdotes differ. You evaluate your body of work to bring the biggest impact.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand customer requirements and existing environments, and translate these into configurations in AWS that meet performance, scalability, and availability needs.
- Design Customer SolutionsÂ, collaborate with AWS field, services, sales, training and support teams, to help partners and customers learn to use Amazon Databases.
- Devise Strategy Âand Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services and Partners to define a Database & Analytics Engagement strategy for AWS key accounts.
- Extract best-practice knowledge, and patterns from these engagements for sharing with the worldwide AWS solutions architect community and produce customer facing reference architectures.
- Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical solutions aligned with their business strategies.
- Partner with business development and account management teams in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the worldwide AWS solution architect community.
- Provide thought leadership on Database and Analytics solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS DBS Blogs, technical content like white papers and Solution Reference Architectures, as well as internal training of Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and AWS Trainers.
About the team
You will be an integral part of the AWS Worldwide Specialists Organization (WWSO), Data & AI Team for AWS Industries and Strategic Accounts. It’s a function within the AWS Specialists and Partners organization that aims to improve engineering design and AWS service adoption for our customers around the world. This group is comprised of Specialists Solution Architects (SA) with deep technical expertise in database technologies, data warehousing, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Primary functions of the team include advising key AWS customers on how to leverage database and analytics services to solve their most challenging problems, advice on effective patterns & practices, build and publish foundational reference solution architectures, be the voice of the technical field for databases, and building a strong worldwide communities. WWSO projects bring repeatable customer value addressing recurring customer challenges, mitigating adoption blockers, influencing service roadmap, and delivering deploy-able architectures that can be used by many customers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Qualifications
- 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
Extended Qualifications
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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