Are you passionate about the Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports industries? Do you have a track record of designing technology platforms that create exceptional customer experiences? If so, we invite you to join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports Industry Specialist Solutions Architecture Team, where you’ll help our customers and partners innovate and succeed in the cloud.
We are seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect with extensive expertise in Media & Entertainment solution areas, including Content Production, Media Supply Chain & Archive, Broadcast Modernisation (connectivity, playout, live production), Direct-to-Consumer Streaming, and Monetisation. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the technical architectures that drive content creation, broadcasting, and distribution. Leveraging your experience in these systems, you will provide strategic technical guidance to customers and partners, ensuring seamless deployment, operation, and innovation on AWS.
As a Solutions Architect, you will own the technical relationship with AWS Media & Entertainment customers, providing expert guidance on security, cost optimisation, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency. By working backwards from their business needs, you’ll offer strategic advice to help them unlock business value through technology. This role involves close collaboration with business development, account management, professional services, support, product teams, and the AWS partner ecosystem.
You’ll have the opportunity to apply your creativity, connecting innovative technologies to practical solutions while showcasing the possibilities AWS can deliver in a dynamic and ever-changing market.
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the broader Industry Specialist team to shape the strategic plan and drive cloud adoption for GameTech customers.
- Design and deliver innovative technical solutions to engage and inspire customers and partners.
- Build technical credibility and trust during sales cycles, engaging directly with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, and Senior Developers across the Gaming industry.
- Work with AWS service teams and partners to deploy, pilot, and scale game-focused solutions, collaborating with sales enablement, regional business development, and account teams.
- Lead customer briefings, represent AWS Game Tech at industry events, and advance thought leadership in gaming technology solutions.
- Educate customers on the benefits of AWS, engaging in in-depth architectural discussions to ensure their solutions are optimised for successful cloud deployment.
- Deliver training sessions, both one-to-one and group formats, to share knowledge with customers exploring or already using AWS.
- Capture and share best practices within the AWS Solutions Architect community to foster continuous learning and improvement.
Work Conditions
The position is based in Dubai, requiring interaction with customers in the Media & Entertainment industry. You will collaborate with customers to maximise the value of the AWS Cloud, assisting organisations at various stages of their cloud journey.
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
