Overview
Senior Solutions Architect, AWS (UAE Nationals Only). AWS is looking for experienced technologists who balance technical depth with strong interpersonal skills. As a Solutions Architect, you will help shape the future of digitally native customers, partnering with AWS teams to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption.
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 workloads to the cloud. You will help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS.
The ideal candidate is self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting, able to connect technology with measurable business value, and capable of thinking strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.
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 objectives through the adoption of AWS. Solutions Architects 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, 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 AWS.
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS 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.
* 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, so you can 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 AWS.
About the team & AWS
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 startups to Global 500 companies trust our products and services.
Inclusive Team Culture: It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to embrace our differences.
Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. You’ll find knowledge-sharing, mentorship and career-advancing resources to develop into a well-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, we can achieve more in the cloud.
Basic qualifications
* UAE Nationals with Family Book only
* Experience in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics
* Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
* Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
Preferred qualifications
* 2-5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
* Knowledge of SAP systems (e.g., SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
* Experience working with end user or developer communities
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