Sr. Delivery Consultant - Database, Professional Services, AWS Professional Services

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Delivery Consultant 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, as a Delivery Consultant 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, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

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. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:

1. Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS well-architected database solutions tailored to customer needs

2. Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery

3. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies

4. Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies

5. Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts to design cost-optimized, secure, scalable, database architectures

6. Travel to customers as required

About the team

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Basic qualifications

- 7+ years of database administration and migration experience (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

- Experience delivering large-scale database migrations (100+ instances)

- Hands-on experience with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DMS)

- Experience with migration tooling (DMS, SCT, Data Guard, GoldenGate, or equivalent)

- Fluent English proficiency

Preferred qualifications

- Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience

- Work experience in any of the following industries: financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or other segments), automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media & entertainment, or manufacturing.

- AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)

- AWS certifications (Database Specialty, Solutions Architect Professional)

- Experience with database discovery and profiling tools (Oracle Enterprise Manager, AWS DMS Fleet Advisor, or equivalent) preferred

- Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python)

- Comfortable operating in complex, multi-vendor database environments with incomplete documentation

- Able to engage with application owners, DBAs, and infrastructure teams to map database dependencies and assess migration risk

- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)

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