Solutions Architect II, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon • Herndon, VA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our National Security team supporting Intelligence Community (IC) customers. As a Solutions Architect on the AWS National Security Team, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to IC customers—you are the "face of Amazon" to our most mission-critical customers. You will engage across a broad variety of complex technical challenges that directly impact national security outcomes. This is a high-visibility role where you collaborate with and influence both external stakeholders and internal AWS teams, including sales, platform engineering, and AI/ML service teams.

National Security Solutions Architects (SAs) are recognized as technical thought leaders within the Intelligence Community who evangelize emerging technologies—including agentic AI, machine learning, and computer vision —not only on a conceptual level, but on a practical, architectural level. You will design and deliver AI-powered solutions that enable agencies to extract actionable intelligence from complex data at scale.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Requirements

• 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 Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

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
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for IC customers, working backwards from mission requirements to envision innovative cloud and AI solutions that accelerate mission outcomes
• Evangelize emerging AI/ML and Big Data capabilities, including foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and computer vision, to IC stakeholders at both technical and executive levels
• Craft highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures that address IC business problems and accelerate adoption of AWS services across classified environments
• Design and implement generative AI, machine learning, and agentic AI architectures using AWS services (Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Q) tailored to IC mission requirements within classified environments
• Partner with AWS Sales and cross-functional teams to drive revenue growth by identifying opportunities to apply emerging technologies and cloud services to mission challenges
• Provide direct feedback to AWS service teams on IC-specific requirements, including feature requests for classified region service parity, and contribute to the development of new tools and capabilities for the cleared environment
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected assessments with customers to ensure solutions meet best practices for security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and sustainability

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level