About the job
The company is seeking 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 teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of services.
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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 how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. This role includes shaping and executing a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of the company's services.
The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.
This role is based in UAE, Dubai / Abu Dhabi.
Key job responsibilities
- Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the company's platform in partnership with the sales team.
- Formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of the company's services.
- Own the overall technical relationship between customers and the company, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of the company and participate 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 the company's services.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the company's solutions architect community.
A day in the life
In this role, you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
Enjoy working with dynamic digital native customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers.
You should have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems engineer/architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, allowing you to make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on the company's services.
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
- Experience working with end user or developer communities.
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, and storage architectures.
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
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