DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Database Migration Architect, you will work with customers and partners, guiding them through planning, preparing, and delivering complex transformation and migration projects based on varying customer needs. You will build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships 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 for 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 will identify solutions that help a customer, partner, or an internal team overcome technical and organizational challenges. You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to support pre-sales activities.
Do you have experience delivering IT solutions in an agile environment - planning, organizing, and managing all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery?
Key Job Responsibilities
1. 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.
2. Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customers.
3. Work directly with customers' technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on understood requirements.
4. Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
5. 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.
6. Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
7. Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 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 a proven track record of implementing replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* 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.
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