Sr. OpenSearch Specialist SA, WWSO Data

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA). AWS SSAs are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges, including guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

As part of the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), you will help drive revenue, adoption, and growth from large and fast-growing accounts, including public sector, by building and executing go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. The OpenSearch team focuses on building search, observability, and Generative AI applications with OpenSearch, and delivering strategic guidance and thought leadership across semantic search, observability, and large-scale log analytics.

• Provide deep technical expertise for customer engagements involving OpenSearch, designing and deploying scalable, high-performance search and analytics solutions.
• Lead architectural reviews, migration assessments, and workshops focused on search, log analytics, observability, and GenAI-based use cases.
• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmaps.
• Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
• Build and nurture AWS's global OpenSearch expert community while creating technical enablement resources for Solutions Architects worldwide.
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events and webinars, writing white papers and blogs, and running workshops.
• Help customers accelerate their Generative AI deployments with OpenSearch vector store.

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 5+ years of experience in modern search technologies (OpenSearch, Solr, Elasticsearch, Lucene, etc.).

• Experience working with end-user or developer communities.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive-level stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience in designing and operating search and analytics solutions in on-premise or cloud environments.

This position is part of the Amazon Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their technology domains, providing business and technical expertise to help customers succeed. Partner teams own strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of key technology and consulting partners.

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• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Engineering
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

Job ID: A3060130