Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Global Sales - Saudi Arabia

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

We are hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to work with Enterprise and Strategic customers in western Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest-growing cloud markets in the Middle East, fuelled by Vision 2030 and ambitious national digital transformation programmes across government, healthcare, aviation, retail, and financial services. This role is central to AWS's growth strategy in the Kingdom - you will serve as the primary technical advisor for a portfolio of high-profile enterprise customers, helping them modernise legacy platforms, adopt AI and cloud-native architectures, and accelerate their digital agendas.

Solutions Architects engage with customers to understand their business drivers, assess application portfolios, and design reliable, cost-effective cloud-native architectures. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with Account Managers, Business Development representatives, Professional Services, Specialist SAs, and AWS Service Teams to create solutions that address complex business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. You will also play a key role in competitive displacement engagements, helping customers migrate workloads to AWS.

You should enjoy thinking strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable at the intersection of technology and business. The Solutions Architect is a technical role - you must be broadly competent across many areas of technology (Generative AI…

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Experience designing or advising on AI/ML workloads, including model training, inference, and deployment on cloud infrastructure
• Experience with generative AI concepts and their application to enterprise use cases (e.g., foundation models, RAG architectures, AI agents, prompt engineering)Preferred / Nice-to-have:
• Experience architecting data pipelines and data platforms that support AI/ML workloads (e.g., data lakes, feature stores, vector databases)
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks and services (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face) or equivalent cloud AI platforms

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