Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, Public Sector MENAT

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner some of the world’s largest companies, to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

In collaboration with account managers, you will assist in driving growth in a global energy customer. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote & accelerate customer adoption of AWS.
• Ensure customer & partner success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Be an AWS evangelist; educate customers & partners of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers & partners to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers, blogs, and proof of concepts.
• In partnership with the sales & partner team, formulate, and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS & its partner solutions.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.
  
  

About The Team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

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Work/Life Balance

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience across at least one industry vertical (manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, etc.)
• Travel up to 50% of the time
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Saudi National
  
  

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Company - AWS EMEA SARL (Saudi Arabia Branch)

Job ID: A3102485