Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, Public Sector MENAT

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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.

• Act as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote and accelerate customer adoption of AWS.
• Ensure customer and 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 and partners of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers and partners to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge among 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 and partner team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS and 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.

• 10+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end‑to‑end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences and at C‑level, including training, workshops, publications.

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of large‑scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent.
• Strong presentation and white‑boarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• Saudi National.