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Solutions Architect, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon· Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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Herndon, VA$131.3k - $177.6kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Solutions Architect on AWS's National Security team supporting National Security Space and Sensor customers. Acts as a trusted technical advisor to IC customers, designing and delivering AI-powered, secure, scalable architectures for large-scale sensor data processing and mission-critical outcomes, with opportunities to influence product roadmaps and mentor peers.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical advisor and architectural authority for your customers, building deep trust with mission owners, program managers, and customer engineering leadership.
  • Design and prototype secure, scalable, resilient architectures for large-scale sensor data processing — spanning ingest, storage, compute, analytics, and AI/ML inference at the edge and in the cloud.
  • Lead technical engagements including architecture reviews, whiteboard sessions, proof-of-concepts, pilots, and Well-Architected reviews that accelerate customer adoption and mission outcomes.
  • Evangelize and operationalize emerging AI capabilities—generative and agentic AI, foundation models, computer vision, and geospatial ML—translating concepts into deployable, accredited architectures.
  • Architect portable, container-based solutions that leverage open-source technologies.
  • Partner closely with Account Managers and Capture Managers on account strategy, technical qualification, opportunity shaping, and long-range mission roadmaps.
  • Author and deliver technical content: reference architectures, reusable solution patterns, blog posts, whitepapers, demos, and workshops that scale your impact beyond individual engagements.
  • Capture the voice of the customer and act as a conduit to AWS service teams, influencing the AWS product roadmap with mission-driven requirements.
  • Mentor peers and contribute to the technical community within the National Security team.
  • This position can have periods of up to 20% travel.

Qualifications

  • 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)

Skills

Required:Architecting secure, scalable architecturesAI/ML and computer vision integration
Nice to have:Public sector / IC engagement

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
  • parential leave
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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