About the Job
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’ll 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. Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. This role involves linking technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures, while also educating AWS customers about possibilities and innovations in the cloud. This role is located within the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (MENAT) organization and focuses on Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) customers.
Key Responsibilities
- As a key member of the sales team, 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 goals through the adoption of AWS
- Own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, participating in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for 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
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data, and analytics) experience
- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
