Sr. Solutions Architect, Energy and Utilities (Dubai Abu Dhabi)

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead complex cloud solutions for Energy & Utilities clients in the Dubai area. You will design scalable architectures, advise CIO/CDO level stakeholders, and collaborate with account teams to drive AI-powered pilots and proofs of concept.

You will shape long-term technology strategy, write thought leadership content, and represent AWS at conferences while partnering with Global Account Managers to expand AWS adoption within customer

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cloud architecture and its application to Energy & Utilities.
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization.
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.
• Ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship with customers, advising on security, cost, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Design and architect complex cloud solutions for Energy & Utilities customers.
• Collaborate with customer teams to deliver proof of concepts and pilots using AI-assisted tools.
• Develop thought leadership content via blogs, whitepapers, and speaking engagements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Sales collaboration

Industry domain knowledge

IT development/consulting

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

SAP systems knowledge

Cloud certifications (AWS SA, etc.)

Job description

Imagine being a part of a team where your ideas can help reshape the future of the Energy industry and improve the lives of many. Here at AWS youll work with a talented & inclusive team while using state of the art technologies to help our customers accelerate the global energy transition.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to build the future with us as a Sr. Solutions Architect supporting some of the largest Energy & Utilities companies in the world:

• You will craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• Youll become a trusted advisor for key customer personas including CIO CDO and Head of AI.
• You will be embedded with the customer technical teams and will leverage AI-assisted development tools to deliver proof of concepts and pilots that address industry-specific challenges and demonstrate AWS solutions.
• Your contributions through written content and speaking engagements at public conferences will position you as an AWS thought leader in the Energy & Utilities sector.
• In partnership with Global Account Managers you will shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and enable the broad use of AWS within the customer organization.
• You will interact communicate and partner with other teams at AWS such as product marketing and professional services and represent your team to executive management.

You exercise good judgement in balancing short‑term value with longer‑term supportability and are keenly aware of how technological changes might impact your solutions. You are never constrained by the realities of today. You can see areas where AWS and our partners can innovate and work across organizations (both internal and external) to deliver new value to our customers. You possess a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges. Your dynamism creativity and passion for excellence will make a positive impact with your customer.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship with customers making recommendations on security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency.
• Design and architect complex cloud solutions for Energy & Utilities customers by combining business acumen with deep technical skills helping customers solve their most critical business challenges.
• Collaborate with customers technical teams to build and deliver proof of concepts and pilots using AI-assisted development tools that demonstrate the value and capabilities of AWS services for industry-specific use cases.
• Create thought leadership content through blog posts whitepapers and speaking engagements at public conferences establishing yourself as an AWS for Energy & Utilities thought leader.
• Develop and maintain trusted advisor relationships with key customer personas (CIO CDO Head of AI) understanding their business context and influencing their long‑term technology strategy.
• Drive effective feedback gathering from customers translating that feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams to review and implement.
• Be an internal advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform.
• Help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire coach and mentor others.

About the team

The AWS Industries team helps industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. We meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry‑specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers whether that is how we build products and solutions how we sell how we deliver or how we partner.

Why AWS

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

• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics).
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
• Experience in infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite S/4HANA SAP Business Warehouse SAP HANA SAP Business Objects etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs

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Required Experience

Senior IC