Manager, Solution Architecture, AWS Federal Financials

About the role

As a Manager of Solutions Architecture within our AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Federal Financial practice, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services directly with federal financial customers and AWS Partners.

Responsibilities

• Ensure our customers' success in building, migrating, and securing infrastructure, software, and services on the AWS platform leveraging best practices and modern architectures
• Partner with the sales and business development teams to formulate and execute a strategy to drive successful customer outcomes across the federal financial portfolio
• Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects with a focus on federal financial domain expertise, security best practices, and compliance frameworks
• Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many technical engagements, including whiteboard sessions, small and large group presentations, and deep-dive workshops
• Provide best practices to customers and develop deep expertise in AWS technologies and how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform in regulated federal environments
• Create and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, solutions, quickstarts, and other high-value customer-facing content tailored to federal financial use cases
• Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams, AWS compliance and security teams, and support
• Broadly engage with Amazon leadership to communicate and drive your vision, working across the organization to advance the federal financial mission

Requirements

• A solid understanding of all major cloud service providers — not just AWS — is important, as is familiarity with the unique regulatory, compliance, and security requirements of the federal financial sector (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST frameworks, and agency-specific ATOs)
• A minimum of 9 years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.
• 9+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
• Experience in one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or above, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package including sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

Base salary range: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually

Schedule

Open to domestic travel up to 30%.