Posted 17 August, 2026
Sr. Specialist, Data foundations ANZ, WWSO Data APJC
Amazon
AU, NSW, Sydney
Full Time
Reference: 71_457722_a385e434-0b3c-48a1-b0d2-de3288c14dfa
Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, deep database background, and technical sales skills to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers across Australia and New Zealand? Do you love building strategic, data-driven businesses and helping customers get their data foundations ready for the AI era? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Data team as a Sr. Go-To-Market (GTM) Specialist for Database, based in Sydney and focused on data foundations across ANZ.
This role drives the AWS database and data-foundations go-to-market across ANZ, owning the strategy and execution that helps customers optimise their existing database estate and modernise it to be ready for AI and agentic workloads. Data is the context layer that turns generic AI into personalised, differentiated customer experiences; every AI conversation is a data conversation, and this role sits at the centre of it. You will drive the migration of on-premises SQL Server and Oracle estates to AWS managed databases, position AWS's purpose-built database portfolio, and ensure customers' data foundations are cloud-native, resilient, and AI-ready. You will work on ANZ's largest customers and deals, partnering with migrations, account, and partner teams to land complex, multi-year outcomes. You are accountable for the growth of the ANZ database business, measured by pipeline and revenue influenced. You will also be the voice of ANZ back to the service team, carrying customer needs to our database service teams to help reshape service and roadmap strategy.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the GTM strategy and execution for AWS Database and data foundations across ANZ including messaging, positioning, and campaigns across all segments.
- Serve as the ANZ point of contact for database and data-foundation motions, the connective tissue between Specialist SAs, Partner teams, and the area sales teams carrying database quota.
- Win large migrations to AWS, migrate on-premises commercial database estates to AWS managed, purpose-built databases, getting data foundations AI/agentic-ready.
- Lead engagement on ANZ's largest, most strategic deals, partnering with migrations, commercial/deal, and partner teams to accelerate and close complex, multi-year opportunities.
- Be the voice of ANZ to the database service teams feeding customer needs, adoption signals, and competitive gaps back to product leadership.
- Engage at CxO/VP level and with developers and architects to build pipeline and drive revenue across 15+ AWS database services.
A day in the life
You are the person the ANZ field, partners, and customers come to for anything database and data foundations. One day you're in a CxO briefing making the case to migrate a legacy Oracle estate to Aurora ahead of an AI initiative; the next you're enabling an ANZ area sales team on a large migration, unblocking a stalled deal with the right partner funding lever, or feeding ANZ customer signal back to the service team to shape the roadmap. You operate across ANZ and every segment, building the strategy and executing it measured by the growth of the ANZ database business, not a personal quota
About the team
The WWSO Data team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. This role sits on the APJ Data GTM team as the ANZ database and data-foundations lead, working as an integrated unit with account teams, Specialist SAs, and partner teams. We believe in a collaborative model where BD, Sales Specialists, and Specialist SAs operate in concert, each bringing unique strengths to deliver customer outcomes. We value individuals who are strong strategists and effective communicators who can bridge local market needs and global priorities. If you thrive where you build the strategy and execute it, influence across organisational boundaries, and measure success by the collective growth of the team, this is the role for you
This role drives the AWS database and data-foundations go-to-market across ANZ, owning the strategy and execution that helps customers optimise their existing database estate and modernise it to be ready for AI and agentic workloads. Data is the context layer that turns generic AI into personalised, differentiated customer experiences; every AI conversation is a data conversation, and this role sits at the centre of it. You will drive the migration of on-premises SQL Server and Oracle estates to AWS managed databases, position AWS's purpose-built database portfolio, and ensure customers' data foundations are cloud-native, resilient, and AI-ready. You will work on ANZ's largest customers and deals, partnering with migrations, account, and partner teams to land complex, multi-year outcomes. You are accountable for the growth of the ANZ database business, measured by pipeline and revenue influenced. You will also be the voice of ANZ back to the service team, carrying customer needs to our database service teams to help reshape service and roadmap strategy.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the GTM strategy and execution for AWS Database and data foundations across ANZ including messaging, positioning, and campaigns across all segments.
- Serve as the ANZ point of contact for database and data-foundation motions, the connective tissue between Specialist SAs, Partner teams, and the area sales teams carrying database quota.
- Win large migrations to AWS, migrate on-premises commercial database estates to AWS managed, purpose-built databases, getting data foundations AI/agentic-ready.
- Lead engagement on ANZ's largest, most strategic deals, partnering with migrations, commercial/deal, and partner teams to accelerate and close complex, multi-year opportunities.
- Be the voice of ANZ to the database service teams feeding customer needs, adoption signals, and competitive gaps back to product leadership.
- Engage at CxO/VP level and with developers and architects to build pipeline and drive revenue across 15+ AWS database services.
A day in the life
You are the person the ANZ field, partners, and customers come to for anything database and data foundations. One day you're in a CxO briefing making the case to migrate a legacy Oracle estate to Aurora ahead of an AI initiative; the next you're enabling an ANZ area sales team on a large migration, unblocking a stalled deal with the right partner funding lever, or feeding ANZ customer signal back to the service team to shape the roadmap. You operate across ANZ and every segment, building the strategy and executing it measured by the growth of the ANZ database business, not a personal quota
About the team
The WWSO Data team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. This role sits on the APJ Data GTM team as the ANZ database and data-foundations lead, working as an integrated unit with account teams, Specialist SAs, and partner teams. We believe in a collaborative model where BD, Sales Specialists, and Specialist SAs operate in concert, each bringing unique strengths to deliver customer outcomes. We value individuals who are strong strategists and effective communicators who can bridge local market needs and global priorities. If you thrive where you build the strategy and execute it, influence across organisational boundaries, and measure success by the collective growth of the team, this is the role for you
