Senior Solutions Architect, Saudi Arabia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, 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 AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
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. 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. 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
- 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.
- 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
Enjoy working with dynamic digital native customers, educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers.Apply strong understanding of large‑scale computing solutions; past experience as a systems engineer / architect is ideal.Continuously hone existing technical skills and develop new ones, contributing to deep architecture discussions.Regularly participate in deep‑dive education and design exercises to create world‑class solutions built on AWS.Basic Qualifications
4+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).4+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.10+ years of IT development or implementation / consulting in the software or internet industries.Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.Knowledge of software as a service or other cloud‑based technologies.Experience working with end user or developer communities.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit for more information. If the country / region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Company : AWS EMEA SARL (Saudi Arabia Branch)
Job ID : A
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