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Key Responsibilities

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will help customers learn and use AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.
• You will deliver on-site technical engagements with customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, creating packaged Data & Analytics service offerings. 
• You will work on short on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
• You will work with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementations and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services.
• You will engage with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment

Key Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• 8+ years of experience of IT platform implementation in a technical and analytical role
• 5+ years’ experience of Data Lake/Hadoop platform implementation
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning Hadoop/Spark implementations
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional and the AWS Data Analytics or Machine Learning Speciality Certification"
• Experience Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem
• Experience with one or more relevant tools (Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Oozie, Hue, Zookeeper, HCatalog, Solr, Avro)
• Experience with one or more SQL-on-Hadoop technology (Hive, Impala, Spark SQL, Presto)
• Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, etc)

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Key Responsibilities

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will help customers learn and use AWS services such as Redshift, Database Migration Service, Glue, S3, and Schema Conversion Tool
• You will deliver on-site technical engagements with 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. 
• You will work on short on-site projects to assess and optimize the customer’s Amazon Redshift implementations and helping customers to migrate from their existing on-premises data warehouses using other databases to Amazon Redshift.
• You will work with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment.

Key Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional or military experience
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional and the AWS Data Analytics or Machine Learning Speciality Certification"
• 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

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Key Responsibilities

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
• You will work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer.
• You will work directly with customers’ business and technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
• You will Analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
• You will work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include, but is not limited to Re-Host database platform on AWS, Upgrade/Optimize for AWS, Re-Factor to open source database platform on AWS.
• You will Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.

Key Requirements 

• 8+ years of DBA experience in Oracle, SQL Server, or other commercial/open source database platforms.
• Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery and server tuning strategies including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
• Experience in Shell/Perl/Python Scripting.
• Experience with C-Level/Director level customers in IT/Business to craft their Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategies.
• Relevant Application/Database replatforming experience (Commercial to Open Source Engines)
• Knowledge of replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar.
• Experience with mission critical databases across multiple database platforms.
• Experience in Data Modelling, ETL/ELT workflow management desired & ability to write, tune SQL queries desired.
• Experience in writing procedural language artifacts: PL/SQL, T-SQL, PL/pgSQL, stored procedures.
• Experience in AWS Platforms and Service.
• Experience with Custom/COTS Applications and their implementation/maintenance.
• Experience with TCP/IP Networking.
• Understanding and ability to participate in all phases of the SDLC including requirements gathering, business analysis, configuration management and quality control desired.