**Sr. Data Architect, Data Warehouse & MPP - Nationwide Opportunities**
Job ID: 1422367 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.
**DESCRIPTION**
This role will specifically focus on large scale data warehousing and data warehouse modernization. The role is to help our customers and partners to eliminate technical and economic constraints from their legacy data warehouses and help them to leverage their data to develop business insights. Our consultants will develop, deliver and implement data warehouse projects that help our customers help our customers leverage their data to develop business insights. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as data warehousing, business intelligence and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities include:
Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Redshift, Database Migration Service, Glue, S3, and Schema Conversion Tool.
Solution - Deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, contributing to internal Area of Depth (AoD) programs, authoring AWS Data Analytics best practice blogs/whitepaper and creating packaged data service offerings.
Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects to assess and optimize customers Amazon Redshift implementations and helping customers to migrate from their existing on-premises data warehouses using other databases to Amazon Redshift.
Innovate - Engaging with the customers business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organizationleaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.
**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional or military experience
8+ years of experience of IT platform implementation in a technical role
8+ years of development and/or DBA experience in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)
5+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning MPP databases (Teradata, Vertica, Netezza, Greenplum)
Experience with prioritization of projects that mitigate trade-offs
Experience in analyzing Data Warehouses such as Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, etc. or Greenplum etc.
Experience designing database environments, analyzing production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Math
Ability to evaluate and plan migrations to Amazon Redshift
One of the AWS Associate level certifications or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Extensive hands on experience in leading large-scale full-cycle MPP enterprise data warehousing (EDW) projects
Extensive hands on experience in data warehousing design, tuning and ETL/ELT process development
Excellent SQL and strong hands-on scripting (bash, perl or python) ability
Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments
Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP databases, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting, Dashboard development and NoSQL storage
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
