Senior Solutions Architect – AWS WWPS Partner Team (Defense & Maritime), WWPS N/R SI Solution Architects

About the role

The Senior Solutions Architect will lead technical strategy and architecture for a rapidly scaling defense-sector partner with significant infrastructure investment. The role involves owning end-to-end solution architecture spanning compute, data, ML, and supply chain operational tooling. Responsibilities also include operating as a trusted advisor at the executive level, providing thought leadership, collaborating with sales and business development teams, and driving architectural decisions across multiple concurrent workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy and architecture for a rapidly scaling defense-sector partner with significant infrastructure investment
• Own end-to-end solution architecture spanning compute, data, ML, and supply chain operational tooling
• Operate as a trusted advisor at the executive level, translating business objectives into AWS-native architectures
• Provide thought leadership and capture best-practice knowledge within the AWS Solutions Architect community
• Collaborate with world-class sales and business development teams to drive partner success

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
• Experience with IoT, HPC, AI/ML workloads, data engineering pipelines, and operational tooling on AWS
• U.S. Navy Operations or Logistics background, or equivalent military experience in mission-critical systems
• Hands-on experience managing complex multi-node supply chains with zero tolerance for failure

Benefits

This position may require up to 30% travel.