Senior Database Consultant, Application Migration, Modernization and Management

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As a Senior Database Migration Architect, you will work with customers and partners, guiding them through planning, preparing and delivery of complex transformation and migration projects based on varying customer needs. You will build and maintain strong stakeholder relationship with C-level executives to shape their cloud migration and transformation roadmap.

On a daily basis, you will work together with customers to assess their organizational readiness to perform the cloud adoption. You will guide them to define goals, objectives and business outcomes. Together with the stakeholders, you will create and align a cloud vision to achieve those results.

You identify solutions that help a customer, partner, or an internal team overcome technical as well as organizational challenges. You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to support pre-sales activities.

Do you have experience delivering IT solutions in agile environment - plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery?

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.

Come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities

Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation. Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customers.
Work directly with customers’ technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements. Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment. Analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.

Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance. Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

Why AWS?

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & 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.

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.
- DBA experience in Oracle, SQL Server, or other commercial/open source database platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another. Relevant Application/Database replatforming experience (Commercial to Open Source Engines)
  • Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery and server tuning strategies, including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
  • Experience in driving innovation initiatives and best practices across multiple development teams or customers and proven track record of implementing replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar- Experience with C-Level/Director level customers in IT/Business to craft their Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategies
  • Prior consulting experience working directly with customers and partners
  • Exposure to Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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