Description

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.

You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.

Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features

In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases.

You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. whitepapers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.

This role is within the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (MENAT) organization and you would be working with Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) customers.

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

• As a key member of the sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue goals through the adoption of AWS, Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.

• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud

• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.

• You will capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.

A day in the life

In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to make an impact.

You'll enjoy working with dynamic customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse set of customers.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

• Fluency in 2 or 3 languages: English, Arabic, French

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective