Job Description
This is an AWS Solutions Architect role focused on UAE enterprise customers – the large organizations deciding how much of their technology estate to move to the cloud, and how. The role spans the full range of what that actually looks like day to day: one engagement might be a hands-on proof of concept helping a retail customer build on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s generative AI platform, and the next might be designing a landing zone – the foundational account, network, and security structure a large customer needs before any serious workload moves to the cloud.
Day to day, expect a mix of pre-sales technical engagement, architecture workshops with customer technical teams, hands-on prototyping, and translating business requirements into concrete AWS architecture recommendations. Because the role sits at enterprise level, a meaningful part of the job is also building trust with senior technical stakeholders who are making multi-year infrastructure bets based on your recommendations.
This suits a senior cloud architect who has both deep technical depth and genuine comfort operating in front of enterprise customers, rather than purely behind-the-scenes engineering work.
It’s a strong fit for someone who wants to work across both established cloud migration patterns and newer generative AI workloads within the same role.
Impact of the Job
Enterprise cloud adoption in the UAE is a strategic growth area, and the architect in this role directly shapes whether large customers trust AWS with mission-critical workloads. Success here can unlock multi-year enterprise contracts and shift a customer's entire technology direction toward cloud and AI services, with effects across AWS's regional enterprise business and reputation. Because enterprise customers tend to make infrastructure decisions that stick for years, a well-run engagement - a landing zone that's genuinely secure and scalable, a proof of concept that actually demonstrates business value - compounds into renewed trust and expanded workloads over time, while a poorly run one can set a customer relationship back significantly. At enterprise scale, this role's technical credibility is effectively doing commercial work as much as technical work. There's also a knowledge-transfer dimension worth naming: patterns and architecture decisions proven with one enterprise customer often get reused, in generalized form, across other UAE enterprise accounts facing similar modernization challenges, so strong work in this role has a multiplier effect across AWS's broader regional enterprise business rather than staying contained to a single account.
Job Seeker Benefit
Few roles offer exposure to cutting-edge cloud and generative AI workloads at genuine enterprise scale, which makes this experience highly differentiated. Working this closely with enterprise decision-makers also builds a commercial and consultative skill set that purely internal engineering roles don't develop in the same way. There's built-in access to AWS's internal architecture frameworks, training, and certification pathways, which is a strong platform toward principal architect, specialist, or broader cloud leadership tracks within AWS or any other major cloud provider. Enterprise relationship skills built here - translating business goals into technical architecture, and technical tradeoffs into business language - are genuinely transferable to any major cloud vendor or consulting firm afterward. Exposure to generative AI workloads specifically, on top of traditional cloud migration work, keeps this role's skill set current with where enterprise technology investment is actually heading, which is a strong position to be in for anyone building a longer-term career in cloud architecture or technical leadership. Because enterprise architecture work this senior sits close to where technology budgets actually get decided, it also builds genuine commercial fluency alongside technical depth - understanding not just how to design a system but how to make the business case for it to people who control multi-year infrastructure spend, which is a combination that increasingly separates principal-level technical careers from purely technical ones.
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Requirements
- Deep AWS (or equivalent major cloud) architecture experience, ideally at a senior or principal level
- Customer-facing pre-sales or consulting background
- Hands-on experience with cloud migration and landing zone design
- Familiarity with generative AI or machine learning services is a strong plus
- Strong communication skills translating technical concepts for enterprise stakeholders
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
Interview Questions to Prepare For
Walk me through a landing zone design you've built for an enterprise customer.
Depth of real architecture experience versus theoretical knowledge.
Tell me about a proof of concept you ran that didn't go as planned.
Honesty and learning orientation, not just success stories.
How do you explain a complex architecture decision to a non-technical enterprise stakeholder?
Communication skill and ability to translate technical tradeoffs.
What's your experience with generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock?
Genuine hands-on exposure versus surface familiarity.
How do you handle a customer pushing back on your architecture recommendation?
Consultative skill and confidence without being dismissive.
Describe a time you had to balance security requirements against a customer's speed-to-market pressure.
Judgment on tradeoffs in real enterprise constraints.
What would you want to understand about a new enterprise customer before proposing an architecture?
Structured discovery approach, not jumping straight to a solution.