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Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 03 Sep 2024

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $190k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional
  • Arabic: Basic

Position

About the Job
Are you passionate about guiding top software companies in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa, Turkey) in their global innovation and acceleration? Do you want to help our customers adopt agile operation models, build modern SaaS architectures, and be at the forefront of their Generative AI transformation? As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.

You will manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects. You will educate customers on the AWS value proposition and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. By operating as a trusted advisor, you will shape your guidance based on the best interests of the customers. Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, conveying their needs to inform the roadmap of AWS features. Additionally, you will create and share best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures and evangelize AWS through workshops, user groups, public speaking, and online content.

Key Job Responsibilities

  • Manage technical relationships between AWS and customers.
  • Recommend security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency measures.
  • Educate customers on AWS's value and participate in architectural discussions.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to customers, representing their interests internally.
  • Share customer needs with AWS teams to inform product roadmaps.
  • Create and share best practices and technical content.
  • Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by mentoring others.
  • Collaborate with account managers to accelerate ISV customer cloud implementations.

A Day in the Life
You will work closely with account managers to help ISV customers modernize their business on AWS. This involves transforming existing workloads by designing target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, and cost. Our focus is understanding customer business drivers and existing architecture to provide robust cloud architecture recommendations that can scale.

About the Team
The AWS ISV Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with software companies to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. We aim to enable our customers to expand their business globally in a cost-efficient manner.

Basic Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
  • 3+ years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting for applications and infrastructures.
  • Background in Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, or DevOps.
  • Experience in managing complex sales processes with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience.
  • Business-level English communication skills, written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with software companies and experience in enterprise cloud adoption.
  • Knowledge of cloud-native design patterns, DevOps practices, and AWS services.
  • Understanding of enterprise regulations, security, and compliance standards.
  • Public speaking experience or a passion for creating technical content.
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures.
  • Business-level Arabic communication skills, written and verbal.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneer cloud computing and continue to innovate, enabling businesses from startups to Global 500 companies to leverage our robust suite of products and services.

Inclusive Team Culture
At AWS, we foster a culture of inclusion and support ongoing learning experiences and events that celebrate our diversity.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We offer continuous knowledge-sharing and mentorship opportunities to help you develop as a professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony, allowing for flexible work hours and arrangements to support your well-being both in the workplace and at home.

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About Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon offering cloud computing platforms and APIs. AWS provides a broad set of global cloud-based products, helping organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Committed to sustainability, AWS aims for 100% renewable energy usage.

Benefits at Amazon Web Services

    • Innovative culture encouraging pushing boundaries
    • Opportunity to impact businesses and individuals globally
    • Wide range of learning and career advancement opportunities
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