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You'll work directly with clients to accelerate pre-sales opportunities, collaborating with Sellers, to turn data challenges into production-grade solutions.\nOur team drives database migration, modernization, and platform engineering for some of the largest organizations in the world - helping them Re-host on AWS EC2, Re-platform to RDS, Re-factor to Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQL, and migrate Oracle/Exadata workloads to ODB@AWS. You'll be in the room (or the call) where it happens, turning ambiguity into architectures and architectures into outcomes.\nThis isn't a role for people who want to sit back and review tickets. You'll lead Executive Conversations, drive proof-of-concepts, run technical workshops, and build reusable IP that multiplies impact across customers, market segments, and technology domains. 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