Senior Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners
About The Position
Solutions Architects guide AWS customers and partners in complex cloud deployments that drive mission outcomes. You will work with our most strategic Defense Technology partners—where workload performance matters, delivery timelines are important, and requirements evolve constantly. You'll map their technical challenges, structure delivery approaches, and help them ship solutions fast. This includes scoping, sequencing, and architecting full-stack cloud solutions that create measurable mission value, while driving clarity across internal AWS teams and external agency stakeholders. You will work directly with senior technology and business leaders as their technical thought partner, guiding cloud adoption, maximizing mission impact, and ensuring successful deployments at scale. Along the way, you'll identify reusable architectural patterns, codify best practices, and share field signal that influences AWS's product and service roadmap. This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen
Requirements
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 4+ 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
- Experience in GenAI deployments
- US Citizen
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of AWS services, customer base, and industry verticals
- Experience in the Defense sector
Responsibilities
- Guide our partners in designing and creating complex, multi-service workloads on AWS, driving end-to-end, strategic technical value for public sector customers
- Lead engagement and relationship building with our partners' technical executives (C-level) and working-level engineering teams
- Look around corners for our partners, understand their business context and technical requirements, guide their architectures, and build proofs-of-concept
- Serve as our partners' technical thought leader on security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
- Maintain and grow your technical skills and knowledge of industry trends
- Develop and deliver blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures specific to Defense Tech partners on AWS
- Mentor junior SAs and codify best practices into reusable patterns for the broader SA community
- Identify and drive product feature requests based on customer feedback to influence AWS service roadmap
- Travel about 30% of the time
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
