Senior Solutions Architect, AWS National Security Solutions Architecture Team
Amazon· AWS National Security Solutions Architecture Team
Herndon, VA$153.6k - $207.8kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Solutions Architect to support National Security Space and Sensor Customers within AWS, acting as a trusted technical advisor to intelligence community customers, guiding complex, mission-critical cloud architecture and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges
- In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
- As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- 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
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community
- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and other reusable content
- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
Qualifications
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ 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
- Bachelor's degree, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance
Skills
Required:Cloud architectureSales collaborationApplication migrationPublic speaking/trainingGenerative AI / ML architectures
Benefits
- Base salary with sign-on payments and RSUs
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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