Senior Partner Solutions Architect - Global Strategic Partners, SA, EMEA Global Strategic Partners

Would you like to be part of a team that is redefining the IT industry? Amazon Web Services is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is looking for a world-class candidate for the role of Partner Solution Architect, within our Global Strategic Partners (GSP) business function.

This is an ideal role for someone who has experience working for or with a global systems integrator, technology consulting firm, or a Fortune 1000 company. If you are a problem solver with broad technical skills, and have the ability to drive technical conversations you will enjoy this role.

Working with partners is a team effort that will require influence and coordination with many stakeholders. You should be just as comfortable talking storage and networking with the VP of Infrastructure or continuous deployment with the DevOps team, TCO with the CFO, cloud strategy with the CIO and AI with the CDO. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Key job responsibilities

As a strategic member of the regional Partner Solution Architect team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our managed global systems integrators. This includes:

1. Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful partner engagements worldwide.
2. Work closely with Partner Development Managers, Account Managers and other Solutions Architects throughout the lifecycle of customer engagements.
3. Assist partners define the approach, tools, and target architecture as they migrate customers or build cloud-native solutions on Amazon Web Services.
4. Validate Partner architectures, deliverables, SOW’s, project plans, and other assets required to successfully deliver partner-led customer engagements.
5. Assist solution providers with the definition of technical strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offering on the AWS platform.
6. Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solution Architect community and externally.
7. Share partner and customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS.
8. Up to 40% travel is required.

A day in the life

In this technical role, you will architect enterprise-grade Amazon Web Services solutions, own the technical relationship and deliverables for a GSP, develop and execute multi-day workshops, lead whiteboarding sessions, author white papers and blog posts, and respond to complex technical inquiries.

As a Partner Solution Architect focused on GSP within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of the AWS platform across the partner community.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Strong presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and executive audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional or military experience.
• Fluent in Arabic and English.
• Experience executing large scale data center transformation or application migration and modernization projects.
• AWS Professional level certification.
• Generative AI Practitioner certification or equivalent AI technical certification.