Sr. Solutions Architect, Energy and Utilities (Dubai / Abu Dhabi)

Description

Skills

• We are looking for an experienced and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to build the future with us as a Sr.
• Solutions Architect supporting some of the largest Energy & Utilities companies in the world:
• You will craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• You'll become a trusted advisor for key customer personas including CIO, CDO, and Head of AI.
• You will be embedded with the customer technical teams and will leverage AI-assisted development tools to deliver proof of concepts and pilots that address industry-specific challenges and demonstrate AWS solutions.
• Your contributions through written content and speaking engagements at public conferences will position you as an AWS thought leader in the Energy & Utilities sector.
• In partnership with Global Account Managers, you will shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and enable the broad use of AWS within the customer organization.
• You will interact, communicate and partner with other teams at AWS such as product, marketing, and professional services, and represent your team to executive management.
• You exercise good judgement in balancing short-term value with longer-term supportability and are keenly aware of how technological changes might impact your solutions.
• You are never constrained by the realities of today.
• You can see areas where AWS and our partners can innovate and work across organizations (both internal and external) to deliver new value to our customers.
• You possess a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.
• Your dynamism, creativity and passion for excellence will make a positive impact with your customer.
• Key job responsibilities
• Own the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Design and architect complex cloud solutions for Energy & Utilities customers by combining business acumen with deep technical skills, helping customers solve their most critical business challenges.
• Collaborate with customer's technical teams to build and deliver proof of concepts and pilots using AI-assisted development tools that demonstrate the value and capabilities of AWS services for industry-specific use cases.
• Create thought leadership content through blog posts, whitepapers, and speaking engagements at public conferences, establishing yourself as an AWS for Energy & Utilities thought leader.
• Develop and maintain trusted advisor relationships with key customer personas (CIO, CDO, Head of AI), understanding their business context and influencing their long-term technology strategy.
• Drive effective feedback gathering from customers, translating that feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams to review and implement.
• Be an internal advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform.
• Help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others.

About The Team

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
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Company

• Amazon Web Services EMEA Dubai FZ Branch