Job description

Senior Solutions Architect role within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Commercial Sector Enterprise team in Dubai, UAE responsible for working directly with enterprise customers across Financial Services, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, and Media sectors undergoing complex digital transformation initiatives. The role focuses on designing and implementing cloud architecture solutions across cloud infrastructure, modern application development, data and analytics, generative AI, and machine learning environments. The Senior Solutions Architect acts as a builder and technical advisor, engaging with customer environments to understand business objectives, assess technology landscapes, and architect solutions from whiteboard architecture through proof of concept to production deployment. The position includes developing prototypes, proofs of concept, reference architectures, and production-ready designs while driving cost optimization, operational efficiency, reliability, innovation, and security outcomes. The role requires helping customers adopt generative AI and machine learning use cases, designing architectures for foundation models and intelligent applications, and guiding teams from experimentation to production. Responsibilities include acting as technical advocate within AWS, translating customer feedback into service roadmap improvements, and creating technical content including workshops, blog posts, code samples, reference architectures, and public speaking engagements at meetups, conferences, and user groups. The role also involves mentoring Solutions Architects, supporting hiring initiatives, conducting peer architecture reviews, and contributing to team development. The position requires expertise in cloud computing, software development, systems engineering, networking, infrastructure, virtualization, database architecture, cloud migration, and AWS-based enterprise solutions.