Specialist Solutions Architect - Database, Data & AI GTM

Are you a builder that lives and breathes Postgre

SQL? Have you spent years tuning vacuum behavior, diagnosing lock contention under heavy OLTP workloads, reasoning about query planner decisions, managing replication topologies, and guiding large‑scale migrations from commercial engines like Oracle and SQL Server? Are you the person your organization turns to when a Postgres system is misbehaving at 3 AM and when leadership needs a whiteboard session on where the data platform is headed next?

As a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora Postgre

SQL, you will be the technical authority that AWS’s largest and most complex customers rely on to architect, migrate, and operate Postgre

SQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS.

This is not a generalist database role. You will focus on Aurora Postgre

SQL, going deep where others go broad. You will partner directly with customer engineers and CTOs to design well‑architected production architectures that hold up under real‑world pressure and the operational patterns that distinguish battle‑tested Postgres practitioners from those with only surface‑level familiarity. You will have experience with migrations (Oracle/SQL Server/on‑premises Postgres to Aurora). You will collaborate closely with the Aurora service team to surface customer patterns, elevate feature gaps, and drive the product roadmap on behalf of your customers.

Equally important, you will operate as a thought leader and force multiplier across the broader Specialist SA organization, mentoring teammates, publishing technical content, presenting at AWS re:

Invent and AWS Summits, and establishing repeatable frameworks that raise the bar for Postgre

SQL engagements worldwide.

• Serve as the technical advisor for AWS’s key customers running or migrating to Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL and RDS for Postgre
  
  SQL, providing hands‑on architectural guidance from design through production operation.
• Guide customers on Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL operational best practices including performance & scaling, high availability & durability, monitoring & observability, maintenance & patching, backup & recovery, security and operational hygiene.
• Design and validate Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL architectures that leverage Aurora‑specific capabilities such as storage auto‑scaling, read replica scaling, Global Database, HA/DR, Serverless, ensuring customers realize the full value of the platform.
• Partner with the Aurora service team as the voice of the customer, surfacing recurring pain points, advocating for feature enhancements, and participating in roadmap reviews.
• Engage with customer engineers in whiteboard sessions, architecture reviews, and technical deep dives, providing candid guidance and pushing back diplomatically when a proposed design will not hold up at scale.
• Develop and publish technical thought‑leadership content including blogs, reference architectures, white papers, and reusable artifacts to elevate the broader Postgre
  
  SQL community on AWS.
• Advise on complex database migrations (Oracle, SQL Server, and other engines to Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL).
• Present at key industry events including AWS re:
  
  Invent, AWS Summits, Postgre
  
  SQL community conferences (PGConf, PGDay), and customer‑facing workshops.
• Stay current with Postgre
  
  SQL community developments (new major versions, extensions ecosystem, community tooling) and translate those advancements into actionable guidance for AWS customers.

• 8+ years of specific technology domain experience (for example, software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or Internet industries.
• Hands‑on experience with Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL, RDS for Postgre
  
  SQL, or significant hands‑on time with AWS database and migration services (DMS, SCT).
• Led migrations to Aurora as the technical owner.
• Experience with Aurora‑specific features: storage architecture, fast cloning, Global Database, Performance/Database Insights, and Blue/Green Deployments.
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