
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Middle East
Senior Solutions Architect – AWS Commercial Sector Enterprise
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 04/06/2026
Job overview
Date posted
20/04/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
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.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Partner with enterprise customers across Financial Services, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, and Media to assess business objectives and architect AWS cloud solutions delivering cost optimization, operational efficiency, security, reliability, and innovation
- Design and build prototypes, proofs of concept, reference architectures, and production-ready cloud solutions using AWS cloud infrastructure and modern application development frameworks
- Guide customers in adopting generative AI and machine learning including identifying high-value use cases, designing architectures for foundation models, and supporting production deployment
- Act as technical advocate for customers within AWS by translating feedback into product roadmap inputs and service improvements
- Create technical content including workshops, blog posts, code samples, reference architectures, and public presentations to scale technical impact
- Collaborate with cross-functional AWS teams, conduct architecture reviews, and support cloud migration and transformation initiatives
- Mentor Solutions Architects, support hiring initiatives, and contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous learning culture
Experience & skills
- Possess minimum 8 years of experience across technology domains including software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, and data analytics
- Demonstrate minimum 5 years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting for applications and infrastructure architecture in enterprise environments
- Demonstrate experience architecting or deploying cloud or virtualization solutions for enterprise customers including AWS-based infrastructure
- Demonstrate experience communicating technical architecture solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders including executive-level audiences
- Demonstrate experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking design within enterprise-scale environments
- Demonstrate experience migrating or transforming legacy systems to cloud-based architectures and modern application platforms
- Demonstrate experience working with developer communities, technical stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver cloud transformation initiatives
- Demonstrate experience architecting and operating solutions built on AWS including cloud infrastructure, machine learning, generative AI, and data analytics platforms