Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will have the exciting opportunity to assist and shape the future of a high potential set of digitally native customers. You will partner with various AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a set of digital native customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and guide them in migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
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Key Responsibilities
- Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team.
- Formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
- Own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, recommending on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure successful deployment in the cloud.
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
A Day in the Life
- Dynamic and creative, you will enjoy the challenge of making a big impact while working with diverse digital native customers.
- You will have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions, ideally with past experience as a systems engineer/architect.
- Committed to maintaining and developing your technical skills to contribute to deep architecture discussions.
- Participate regularly in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
Work Conditions
- A culture that values work-life harmony, enabling success at work without sacrificing personal time.
- Continuous support and resources for knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career advancement.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
- Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
- Cloud expertise with Migration and Modernization.
- Experience working with end user or developer communities.
