Database Specialist Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Database Specialist Solution Architect to join the India WWSO Specialists team and help customers modernize their database estates on this role you will be the hands-on technical expert who works directly with customers to plan design and execute database migrations - moving workloads from commercial databases like Oracle and SQL Server to AWS purpose-built databases including Amazon Aurora Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS.

You will engage across the full migration lifecycle: from discovery and schema assessment through proof-of-concept validation and production cutover planning. This is a deeply technical customer-facing role for someone who thrives on solving complex database challenges and enabling customers to achieve better performance scalability and cost efficiency on AWS.


Key job responsibilities
Engage with customers to assess existing database environments identify migration candidates and recommend target AWS database services.
Design database migration architectures using AWS DMS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and native replication approaches.
Conduct hands-on proof-of-concept engagements demonstrating performance compatibility and operational benefits of AWS databases.
Provide technical guidance on schema conversion stored procedure refactoring and application compatibility for Oracle/SQL Server to Aurora/RDS/DynamoDB migrations.
Develop migration runbooks cutover plans and rollback strategies for production database migrations.
Support competitive technical evaluations against Oracle SQL Server and other cloud database offerings.
Collaborate with Database Sales Specialists to qualify opportunities and accelerate deal closure through technical validation.
Create and deliver technical workshops immersion days and enablement sessions for customers and partners.
Contribute to the development of reusable migration tools scripts and best-practice documentation.


- Bachelors degree or above in computer science computer engineering or related field or experience from a technical internship
- 4 years of database administration experience or Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities or experience in SQL Server/MySQL and experience in Oracle DB
- Experience with at least one AWS or cloud-managed database service (Aurora RDS DynamoDB or equivalent).
- Working knowledge of database migration tools and methodologies (AWS DMS SCT or similar).
- Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational database design normalization and indexing strategies.
- Customer-facing experience with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to varied audiences.

- Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch Redshift DynamoDB
- Experience in Postgres or experience in SQL Server/MySQL and experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities
- AWS Professional level certification or 3 years of database (eg. SQL NoSQL Hadoop Spark Kafka Kinesis) experience
- Experience migrating production Oracle or SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora or Amazon RDS.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon DynamoDB data modeling and single-table design patterns.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation Terraform CDK) for database provisioning.
- Experience in a pre-sales consulting or specialist SA role at a technology company.
- Exposure to India Public Sector environments and compliance requirements.

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