Learn everything from hardware to software to support, you get to do it all. Meeting heavy, but you can shorten your week coding instead of participating.
No growth in job paths, must manage to rise. Lack of vision, and that leads to lack of execution.
What are career paths for Solutions Architects? Specifically for SAs at AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks
Which one is better to go into early-in-career? So SAs are more pre-sales and working with AWS sales teams, and ProServ Cloud Architects focus more on implementation and working with partners? ProServ seems like you can develop more technical skills, whereas SAs you can develop more soft skills? ...Read more
Can anyone guide me how to get in tech after career gap of 7 years. My spouse has 4 years experience as SAS programmer and now received work authorization. She is being ghosted by recruiters and hiring manager as soon they learn about her career gap. She has done couple of cloud fundamentals certif...Read more
Got offer from amazon as solutions architect L6 - wondering what is career path for SAs at amazon - what is highest position for SAs. Thank you Updated Tc: Base: $156k Stocks: 80 (4 years) Sign on: 234k (2 yrs) Location: Phoenix, AZ
AWS SAs & Mgr SAs, accepting an offer for L5 SA. Can I get an idea of what is expected on the role for L5 and how to plan toward L6 in a year or two? Highly appreciate any career advices please. TC: 200K Yoe: 16 #aws #amazon #solutionarchitect
Hi All, Thoughts on the Solution Architect (SA)vs SDE career growth paths and experiences. Which domain is good long term based on opportunities, pay, Benifits, skills, etc. (The SA can be the roles of Solution Architects, Technical Sales Engineers, Customer Engineers, CSA and all here) More speci...Read more
I am a Data Analyst /Data manager.I know SAS ,SQL ,python and Tableau . In all my positions (I’m a contractor ,worked for four different health care /Insurance companies ) have been doing same kind of work ,no extra responsibilities or involved in report writing as I don’t have health care degre...Read more
SDM in Amazon, TC - 475k approx. I have an opportunity to take up a new role of managing SAs and TPMs in AWS. Not so much personal travel (team will be traveling) and no on calls for my team, Coes etc. Any idea on comp structure for L6 & L7 SA/TPM managers and how is this career path compared to eng...Read more
Currently a Solutions Architect at Databricks. Curious to know pros/cons on going into Product. Also interested in other attainable career paths for SAs. Mainly motivated by TC at this stage of my life, but also looking for slightly better WLB. TC: 450K | YOE: 6
Title says it all. I’ve heard that SAs get a better work life balance? What are their typical career trajectories like? Who earns more? Who travels more? Do they work with each other and get the same clients? TC : $150K+ YOE : <; 1
Hi my background is in SAS and R, which I use on a daily basis. There are several packages in R for doing almost anything related to data wrangling. If I am interested in growing my career, can I make do with R. Or should I pivot to Python?
Hi all, leaving consulting and joining AWS as an associate SA soon. This will be a new role for me and want to determine the career progression of Solutions Architects. Can anyone provide their own experience or what coworkers have done? Do AWS SAs tend to have good exit opportunities down the road...Read more
I have an offer from Nvidia for a Senior Solution architect role for AI. I would greatly appreciate insights from those who have experience or knowledge about this role. Here are some specific questions I have: 1. How much hands-on coding is typically involved in the day-to-day? 2. What is the work...Read more
Hello everyone, I am currently seeking a career switch, have worked in the energy sector as Data Analyst doing forecasting using SAS and company propertary software, am looking to move into Consulting or into Tech seeking referral for the same any support is appreciated
Asking for a friend: "Analyst in healthcare company with expertise in data visualization (tableau, powerBI) with Excel and less emphasis on SQL/SAS(basic knowledge). Finding fewer roles out there matching my experience. I'm just looking at LinkedIn and companies' career pages and reaching out to co...Read more
I am debating whether to start off my career in SDE or SA at AWS. Don’t mind the small initial pay cut for SAs as I definitely do love to travel. What does an average timeline look like after 5 years of being an SA? 10 years? Do people stay as an SA for life? #aws #solutions #cloud #sde #sa #soluti...Read more
I’m a Sr Product Analyst, using SQL, SAS and Tableau. 6 YEO. TC 100k in a Tier 2 city. I’m not sure if my skills are enough to rise to a Director/VP role in the next 7-8 years. I have career anxiety sometimes and I’m not sure what comes next, finding it hard to find mentors too. I’m not sure it I sh...Read more
Which is a lucrative career path for someone who is working in Data Science for the last 4 years? I like the field but I feel it's hard to stay relevant in this field and there's no well defined career progression. Data Scientist who worked 8 years back primarily working in SAS and now are strugglin...Read more
Can anyone tell me what it is like being a pre-sales SA at databricks? I’m considering the role and wanted to know things around learning, impact on career longer term, work life balance and how much travel is involved typically. I only want to try out the role for an year or so and move back to bei...Read more
What is the next big thing in DS/ Analytics to pursue as I feel im in a saturated market! I have around 10+YOE, and have worked in SQL, SAS, Tableau majorly in business analytics and I feel im not doing anything new and have a strange feeling that im getting into Saturation Zone! Please provide yo...Read more