Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Active TS/SCI )

About the role

SBS is expanding its AWS Professional Services delivery team and is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design and implementation of mission-critical cloud solutions supporting Federal customers.

This individual will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining cloud-native architectures, guiding modernization initiatives, and driving engineering excellence across complex AWS environments.

Working directly with AWS Professional Services architects, government stakeholders, and cross-functional delivery teams, this role will shape technical strategy, establish architectural standards, and oversee the successful delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient solutions supporting national security missions.

Architectural Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise-scale applications and platforms deployed within AWS environments.
• Define reference architectures and technical roadmaps that align customer mission objectives with AWS best practices and long-term modernization strategies.
• Design and deploy AWS Landing Zones in air-gapped, classified regions, including AWS Control Tower equivalents and account-vending automation.
• Partner with AWS architects, customer technical leadership, and program stakeholders to translate business and mission requirements into scalable, secure architectural solutions.
• Drive modernization efforts by transforming legacy applications into cloud-native services utilizing containers, serverless technologies, and managed AWS services.
• Establish engineering standards and architectural governance related to security, reliability, observability, performance, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and technical decision-making forums while documenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and design artifacts.
• Define and champion DevSecOps practices, CI/CD strategies, Infrastructure-as-Code approaches, and automated testing frameworks to accelerate secure software delivery.
• Architect integrations across enterprise systems, APIs, data platforms, and external mission partner environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AWS capabilities, developing recommendations that improve mission effectiveness, operational efficiency, and technical agility.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers, fostering engineering maturity and promoting adoption of architectural best practices.
• Support proposal efforts, technical solutioning activities, and customer briefings by articulating architectural approaches and implementation strategies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience serving as a Lead Developer, Technical Lead, Solution Architect, or Software Architect on large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems on AWS.
• Experience architecting with services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, S3, SQS/SNS, and IAM.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles, security-by-design methodologies, and secure software development practices within regulated environments.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification preferred.
• Experience supporting classified, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other highly regulated environments strongly desired.