Sr. Solutions Architect, UAE CS ENT

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Commercial Sector Enterprise team in the UAE. You will work directly with customers in Financial Services Retail Travel & Hospitality and Media organizations navigating complex digital transformations where the technology strategy is not yet defined and the right path forward requires both technical depth and business judgment.

This is a builder role. You will go into customer environments understand their hardest problems and design solutions that work from whiteboard architecture through proof of concept to production. You will bring deep expertise across cloud infrastructure modern application development data and analytics and increasingly generative AI and machine learning. You will earn trust by shipping things that matter not by presenting slides.

You will be part of a collaborative supportive team that values curiosity ownership and impact. We learn from each other coach and develop each other and build an environment where every voice is heard.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Solutions Architect you will own the technical relationship with customers end-to-end. This means:

- Partnering with enterprise customers to understand their business objectives assess their current technology landscape and architect cloud solutions that deliver real outcomes in cost optimization operational efficiency security reliability and innovation.

- Building hands-on: prototypes proofs of concept reference architectures and production-ready designs. You lead by doing not just advising.

- Helping customers adopt and build with generative AI and machine learning identifying high-value use cases designing architectures for foundation models and intelligent applications and guiding teams from experimentation to production.

- Acting as the customers technical advocate inside AWS translating field insights into clear prioritized feedback that shapes the roadmap for AWS services and features.

- Creating and sharing technical content that scales your impact: workshops blog posts code samples reference architectures and public talks at meetups user groups and conferences.

- Shaping the future of our team by helping hire coach and mentor fellow Solutions Architects. You make the team stronger because of your presence but the team does not depend on your presence to succeed.

A day in the life
No two days look the same. You might spend the morning whiteboarding a multi-account landing zone architecture with a financial services customers platform team then pivot to a hands-on working session helping a retail customers developers integrate a foundation model into their recommendation the afternoon you might review a colleagues architecture proposal draft a blog post on a pattern you discovered in the field or hop on a call with an AWS service team to advocate for a feature your customer needs. You balance depth with breadth strategic thinking with hands-on execution and customer urgency with long-term technical direction.

About the team
AWS Solutions Architects in MENAT are a tight-knit team of builders and technologists who are passionate about helping customers in one of the worlds fastest-growing cloud markets. We work across diverse industries and cultures which demands adaptability curiosity and genuine respect for our customers contexts. We support each other through knowledge sharing peer reviews and a culture of continuous learning. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and we actively foster an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.

- 8 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
- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

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