Senior Solutions Architect - UAE Enterprise (Media & Entertainment)

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join its Commercial Sector Enterprise team in the UAE, based in Dubai. You will work directly with enterprise Media and Entertainment customers facing complex digital transformations where the technology strategy is not yet defined. This is a builder role: you go into customer environments, understand their hardest problems and design solutions from whiteboard architecture through proof of concept to production.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with enterprise Media and Entertainment customers to understand their business objectives, assess their technology landscape and architect cloud solutions covering cost optimization, operational efficiency, security, reliability and innovation.
• Build hands-on prototypes, proofs of concept, reference architectures and production-ready designs.
• Help customers adopt and build with generative AI and machine learning, identifying high-value use cases and guiding teams from experimentation to production.
• Act as the customer's technical advocate inside AWS, turning field insights into prioritized feedback for AWS service roadmaps.
• Create and share technical content such as workshops, blog posts, code samples, reference architectures and public talks at meetups, user groups and conferences.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking or data and analytics, or a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• 5+ years of design, implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructure.
• Experience architecting or deploying cloud/virtualization solutions for enterprise customers.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure, database and networking architecture experience.
• Experience with end-user or developer communities, migrating legacy solutions to the cloud, and architecting solutions built on AWS.
• Experience in production and post-production, media supply chain and content management, D2C streaming, broadcast and playout.