Overview
Senior Data Architect, Professional Services. Job ID: 3057520 | AWS Colombia S.A.S. - E40.
The Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Senior Data Architect to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS.
As trusted advisors to our customers, you will provide guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, and you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as Data and Business intelligence, machine learning, and batch/real-time data processing.
Note: This is a customer facing role and may require travel to client locations up to 50% of the time.
Responsibilities
* Help the customer define and implement data architectures (Data Lake, Lake House, Data Mesh, etc.). Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of AWS Data services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services.
* Deliver on-site technical assessments with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales visits, understanding customer requirements, and creating packaged Data & Analytics service offerings.
* Engage with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment. Create new artifacts that promote code reuse.
* 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, Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.
* Travel to client locations as needed to deliver professional services, up to 50% of the time.
Team & Culture
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed, 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 CORE and AmazeCon 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. You’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture and implementation
* 5+ years of database (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
* 5+ years of experience delivering cloud projects or cloud-based solutions
* Ability to communicate effectively in English, in technical and business settings
* Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* 5+ years of external or internal customer-facing, complex and large-scale project management experience
* Proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
* Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python)
* Expertise in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
* Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
* AWS Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
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