Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Technology

Director,AWSDatabase,Analytics&StorageSolutionsArchitecture,Database&AnalyticsGTM

$241–326k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Director, AWS Database, Analytics & Storage Solutions Architecture, Database & Analytics GTM at Amazon Web Services, Inc.. Skills: Data Architecture, Cloud Computing, AI/ML, Team Leadership. Lead a worldwide team of specialist solutions architects. Set the technical vision for customer engagement”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate workload adoption; Drive significant business impact

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Data-driven transformation; Complex data challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree or above in technical or engineering related field, 15+ years of technical design/implementation/consulting experience, 10+ years of leadership experience in technical, customer-facing role, 7+ years of experience managing and leading technology organizations, 7+ years of hands-on experience with Big Data technologies

Nice to Have

Master's degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, 15+ years of pre-sales engineering, technical business development, enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, or program/product management experience, Deep expertise across the modern data stack, Proven track record of thought leadership, Extensive experience with cloud computing and AWS analytics services, Exceptional people-management, Enterprise communication skills, Business and financial acumen, Excellent analytical skills, Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, Executive presence, Demonstrated ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations, Proven ability to reduce organizational friction

What You'll Do.

Lead a worldwide team of specialist solutions architects

Set the technical vision for customer engagement

Drive measurable business impact through technical customer engagement

Serve as the technical counterpart to the GTM

Partner with VP-level engineering leaders

Engage CxO-level executives at strategic customers

Build durable mechanisms

Develop thought leadership

Leverage AI and agentic technologies

Own strategic planning for Data & Analytics GTM

Serve as a globally recognized evangelist

Architect advanced customer solutions

Demonstrate viability through proof-of-concepts

Establish company standards for data architecture best practices

Craft compelling audience-specific content

Serve as technical liaison between customers and engineering

Lead and develop a global team

Foster a culture of collaboration

Create operational mechanisms

Actively lead the broader SA community

Collaborate with AWS field sales

professional services

Develop best practices

Drive partner go-to-market strategies

Lead large multi-org or global initiatives

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering with service team engineering leaders; Partnering with field sales; Partnering with customer executives; Cross-organizational collaboration; Collaboration with AWS field sales; Collaboration with professional services; Collaboration with engineering; Collaboration with product management

Communication Scope

Executive presentations; Technical writing; Public speaking

Process & Methodology

Strategic planning

Full Job Description

Are you a data leader ready to shape how the world's most innovative companies harness their data in the cloud — and prepare it for the agentic AI era? If you have deep expertise across relational and non-relational databases, data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, real-time event processing, and cloud storage — and a passion for solving complex, large-scale data challenges alongside customers — this is the role for you. As Director of the worldwide Database, Analytics & Storage Solutions Architecture team at AWS, you will lead a global organization of specialist solutions architects who drive technical customer engagement, solution design, and adoption across AWS's data portfolio. Your team will serve as the technical counterpart to the Database, Analytics & Storage go-to-market organization — partnering directly with service team engineering leaders, field sales, and customer executives to accelerate data-driven transformation. This is a role for a leader who combines deep technical expertise with strategic business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to inspire a large, distributed team. You will set the vision for how AWS helps customers migrate, modernize, and unlock the value of their data at scale. Key job responsibilities • Lead a worldwide team of specialist solutions architects and AWS Data technical field SME community members across AMER, EMEA, and APJ • Set the technical vision for customer engagement across AWS's broad and deep spectrum of data services including Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, EMR, S3, MSK, and OpenSearch • Drive measurable business impact through technical customer engagement, solution design, and hands-on architecture guidance that accelerates workload adoption • Serve as the technical counterpart to the Database, Analytics & Storage GTM leader, aligning SA strategy with business priorities • Partner with VP-level engineering leaders across database, analytics, storage, and search service teams to influe

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