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Sr. Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AGS Database Specialist Solutions Architects

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Compensation
$154–208K/yr
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Database Specialist Solutions Architect designs AWS database solution architectures and works with customers and partners on database adoption, migration, and modernization. The role develops proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and implementation support for workloads moving from on-premises databases to AWS services. It also advises enterprise customers, leads architectural reviews, shares industry best practices, and provides feedback to AWS product teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Database ArchitectureApplication DesignInfrastructure DesignDatabase ConsultingRelational DatabasesOracleSQL ServerIBM Db2PostgreSQLMySQLMariaDBInfrastructure ArchitectureNetworkingEnd-User EngagementDeveloper EngagementTechnology SalesPre-SalesSoftware SalesElastiCacheDynamoDBNoSQL Databases

Qualifications

8+ Years Technology Experience3+ Years Design Implementation or Consulting5+ Years Architecture Experience10+ Years IT Development or Consulting

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Do you like to solve the most complex and high scale data challenges in the world today?

As a Database Solutions Architect you will design complete solution architectures based on AWS database services.

Have you developed complex applications?

Are you an experienced Oracle/SQL Server/NoSQL Platform Specialist?

Have you worked on Open source Database platforms like PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache or other NoSQL databases ?

Have you migrated Applications from one Database Engine to another?

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help organizations understand and use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?

The specialist will collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. You will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects in order to develop or migrate Applications from on-premise databases like Oracle/SQL*Server to AWS eg. AWS RDS, Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or other Open Source platforms. You will focus on customer solutions such as high volume OLTP/OLAP environments, designing and deploying future state petabyte-scale data services and building and/or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases adoption.

Key job responsibilities

  • Provide Enterprise customers with deep technical expertise to advance AWS Database Services adoption across their operations, from enterprise database management systems to long term data strategy.

  • Collaborate with AWS specialist, sales, marketing, and product teams to develop innovative solutions for customer's most challenging business problems

  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executives, helping them navigate cloud transformation and digital innovation

  • Lead architectural reviews and workshops focused on solving customer's business cases.

  • Champion industry best practices through AWS blogs, white-papers, and reference architectures.

  • Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits.

  • Educate customers on AWS's value proposition for database workloads, ensuring solutions are optimized for production environments

  • Provide feedback to AWS product teams on industry-specific requirements and act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.

  • Stay current with emerging trends to help customers innovate and maintain competitive advantage

A day in the life

A Database Specialist primary responsibility is to meet with customers, discover their challenges and business outcomes and help them in their journey into the cloud. Within the Database domain, this includes Database sizing/pricing TCO assessments, migration or modernization deep dives and ultimately migration/modernization and operational strategies.

The Database specialist will collaborate with the broader account team on prioritization and engagement strategies that best fit customer priorities.

When the Database Specialist is not engaging customers, they are expected to build/drive thought leadership through speaking events, workshop building and driving feature enhancements with our service teams.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

  • 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

  • 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

  • Deep knowledge and experience on at least one commercial relational database (Oracle, SQL Server, IBM2), or open source database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB).

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

  • Experience working with end user or developer communities

  • 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

  • Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting

  • Expertise with Open Source database technologies such as PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like ElastiCache and DynamoDB.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, AZ, TEMPE - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, UT, Salt Lake City - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

How this job compares

Set against the 8,703 open Solutions Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$154–208K/yr
  • Utah median$134–232K/yr67 salary ranges
  • US median$140–247K/yr7,717 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $181K, is close to the Utah median midpoint ($181K) — in the middle half of Solutions Architect salary ranges in Utah.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 84 open Solutions Architect jobs in Utah and 8,703 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Utah
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Solutions Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (7,639 postings).
Education
2,830 of the 8,703 open Solutions Architect jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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