Principal Solutions Architect AWS Public Sector MENAT📣 Job Ad

Role Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect for the Public Sector MENAT region. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, requires over 10 years of experience. The architect will partner with some of the world’s largest companies to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

Strategic Impact

In collaboration with account managers, the Principal Solutions Architect will assist in driving growth within a global energy customer. As a trusted customer advocate, the role involves helping organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. This position offers the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote and accelerate customer adoption of AWS.
• Ensure customer and partner success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Serve as an AWS evangelist; educate customers and partners of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers and partners to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers, blogs, and proof of concepts.
• In partnership with the sales and partner team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS and its partner solutions.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. A critical aspect of this role is the ability to connect technology with measurable business value. Candidates should also have a demonstrated capacity to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Required Experience

A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this Principal Solutions Architect position.

Location and Employment Type

This is a full-time role based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.