Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, Public Sector MENAT

AWS EMEA SARL (Saudi Arabia Branch); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in Riyadh is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive growth in the energy sector. The ideal candidate will act as a strategic technical leader and facilitate customer adoption of AWS services. This role requires a strong background in cloud technologies and communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences. If you are a Saudi National with expertise in cloud architecture, we encourage you to apply. Competitive compensation and benefits await.

Benefits

Flexible work-life balance

Continuous learning and career development

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience across at least one industry vertical (manufacturing, energy, oil and gas, etc.).
• Cloud Technology Certification (Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud DevOps Engineering).

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic technical leader to provide architectural guidance.
• Ensure customer success in designing, building, and migrating applications.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises.

Skills

Software development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics

Tools

AWS technologies

Job description

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 with 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.

Key Job Responsibilities

• 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 amongst 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.

About the Team

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 the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

• Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data, and analytics
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive-level stakeholders or clients
• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent
• Experience across at least one industry vertical (manufacturing, energy, oil and gas, etc.)
• Travel up to 50% of the time
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional, or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Saudi National

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