Sr. Solutions Architect, State and Local Government Public Health
About The Position
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join their Health & Human Services Public Health vertical business within the State & Local Government (SLG) practice. This role involves helping government agencies solve mission-critical problems using innovative cloud solutions, specifically focusing on how public health and human services organizations can leverage the cloud to improve constituent outcomes. As a technologist with deep domain expertise, you will act as a trusted technical advisor, crafting scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures. Responsibilities include addressing advanced concepts, designing solutions for challenges like interoperable data platforms for population health, and setting up secure, compliant cloud environments for disease surveillance and emergency response. You will also play a key role in capturing customer feedback, advocating for roadmap enhancements, and anticipating customer requirements. The role combines technical depth, public health and human services domain knowledge, business acumen, and technical sales skills, working closely with AWS Sellers, Professional Services, and Partners. You will define technical business strategy in partnership with a Business Development Manager, translating mission priorities into scalable go-to-market motions and helping customers achieve production faster. This position offers opportunities to work on challenging problems impacting citizens globally, collaborate with skilled practitioners, and be part of a diverse and inclusive community.
Requirements
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Technical presentation experience — whiteboard, small and large group presentations to technical and executive audiences.
- Technical — data platforms, analytics/ML, GenAI, and cloud architecture, ideally applied to health or human services domains.
- Operational — security and compliance for regulated workloads (NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GovRAMP).
- Ability to travel as needed to support customer engagements and industry events.
Nice To Haves
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Experience in Health & Human Services, Public Health, or healthcare domains (e.g., Electronic Disease Surveillance, population health, immunization registry, health data interoperability with HL7/FHIR)
- Knowledge of public sector compliance and security frameworks (NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GovRAMP)
Responsibilities
- Serve as the trusted technical advisor and domain expert on Health & Human Services and Public Health solutions for strategic State & Local Government agencies (public health departments, Medicaid and human services agencies, and health-focused GovTech/EdTech customers).
- Define and drive technical business strategy for the Public Health segment in close partnership with the Public Health Business Development Manager (BDM), aligning solution direction with mission outcomes and revenue goals.
- Lead architecture design sessions, technical deep-dives, and proof-of-concept engagements for complex opportunities such as interoperability (HL7/FHIR), population health analytics, disease surveillance, benefits and eligibility modernization, and program integrity.
- Provide expert-level guidance on data platforms, analytics and machine learning, GenAI use cases, and secure, compliant architectures that meet public sector requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, and data-sovereignty needs).
- Partner with account teams on strategic account planning, contributing HHS/Public Health domain expertise to accelerate the sales cycle and improve solution accuracy.
- Present at AWS Summits, re:Invent, and industry conferences (e.g., APHL, CSTE) on topics relevant to public health and human services customers.
- Create and publish external-facing content (blogs, whitepapers, demos, workshops, GitHub repos) showcasing HHS/Public Health best practices on AWS.
- Obtain SA Associate certification within 6 months and SA Pro certification within 18 months.
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
