Solutions Architect, Federal Civilian

Amazon • Arlington, VA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

Solutions Architects lead complex cloud deployments that drive mission outcomes in production. You will embed with our most strategic federal civilian customers—where workload performance matters, delivery timelines are important, and requirements evolve constantly. You'll map their technical challenges, structure delivery approaches, and 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 federal civilian agency 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.

Requirements

• Technical presentation skills (whiteboard to large group)
• Engineering depth across cloud, databases, big data, analytics, and GenAI/ML
• Operational rigor in infrastructure management and security at scale.
• Intellectual curiosity that keeps your skills sharp and a pulse on industry trends.
• US Citizenship
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Bachelor's degree, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 1+ year experience of building AI application with different frameworks

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery for federal civilian customers adopting AWS—from first whiteboard session to production at scale.
• Design cloud architectures that solve real mission problems, ship GenAI and data solutions using the full breadth of AWS, and ensure every engagement lands with measurable impact.
• Lead technical engagements end-to-end—scoping requirements, defining architectures, responding to RFPs, and driving implementations to production.
• Serve as the customer's technical thought partner on security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
• Codify best practices into reusable patterns for the broader SA community.
• Collaborate with world-class sales and business development teams to accelerate adoption.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree