Data/Analytics Consultant for Media and Entertainment (M&E), Professional Services, Media & Entertainment

Key Skills

Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon RedShift, Apache Hadoop, AWS, Big Data Technology, Database, Design, Java Programming, Lambda, Management, Python Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL

Job Description

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers leverage the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform to bring digital transformation for their video and content workloads in the cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of cloud services, building and implementing solutions on top of the AWS platform?

Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented and technical architects to help M&E customers accelerate their own success in the AWS Cloud. This consultant position will join the Professional Services delivery team focused on AWS’s most critical video and media customer requirements. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

As a Data/Analytics Consultant for M&E at AWS, you will have the opportunity to help design and deliver data specific solutions to the largest M&E customers and solve challenging problems using the AWS big data toolset (Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB). You will be the thought leader to define the solution space for these challenging problems and leverage your depth in Big Data and Analytics.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges and have a passion for educating, training, and designing cloud solutions for enterprise customers in the M&E space leveraging a Big Data and Analytics technology toolset.

Customer-facing experience is required, ideally having worked as a Consultant, Pre-sales engineer, Solutions Architect or other similar role.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with existing and potential customers to deeply understand their business and technical needs. Develop solutions that make the best use of the AWS Cloud platform and Analytics Services.
• Interact with our customers to ensure design, integration, quality, and deployment expectations are met / exceeded; work closely with AWS pre-sales technical teams, to ensure solutions are well-architected and can be successfully delivered.
• Act as technical liaison between customers and the service engineering teams, providing product improvement feedback to AWS developers and accelerating the adoption of new features in customer deployments.
• Coordinate and lead internal solution design review processes.
• Publish and present solutions in large forums of peers and customers.
• Act as a technical liaison with third-party vendors to understand integration requirements and implement custom solutions.
• This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years design/implementation/consulting experience with Big Data/Analytics tools
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• 2+ years relevant experience in technology/software delivery or consulting
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Technical degree (Computer Science or Engineering) or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical knowledge and experience on M&E industry and applications of Big Data/Analytics platforms towards common industry workloads
• 5+ years of experience in Big Data technologies (including Hadoop, Spark and distributed query engines)
• Experience architecting, deploying and operating cloud-based solutions.
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
• Ability to present with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel up to 30%