Senior Solutions Architect - Cloud Sales, EMEA RoMENA

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect for its EMEA account covering RoMENA, based in Dubai. The role combines technical depth with strong interpersonal skills: you will partner with AWS teams to design scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures, work with sales to drive revenue growth with digital-native customers, and act as a trusted advisor on cloud migration and best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Build and migrate applications, software and services on AWS together with the sales team, and run a sales strategy to exceed revenue targets.
• Own the technical relationship with customers and recommend on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value of AWS and take part in deep architectural discussions.
• Deliver one-to-one and one-to-many training sessions for customers adopting or using AWS.
• Share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solutions architect community.

Required profile

• Proven track record in software or technology sales or consulting; strategic thinking about business, products and technical challenges.
• 10+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking or data and analytics.
• 5+ years of design, implementation or consulting on applications and infrastructure.
• 10+ years of IT development or consulting in the software or internet industries.
• Past experience as a systems engineer or architect.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, database and networking architecture.
• Experience with end-user or developer communities.
• Architecting infrastructure on Linux/Unix and Windows, including server, load balancing, HA/DR and storage architectures.