Senior Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners

Key job responsibilities

• Work on the Public Sector Partners Team, owning the technical relationship with Defense Tech partners from first whiteboard session to production at scale.
• Design cloud architectures that solve real mission problems, helping partners ship GenAI and data solutions using the full breadth of AWS.
• Ensure every engagement lands with measurable impact by guiding partners in designing and creating complex, multi-service workloads on AWS.
• Lead engagement and relationship building with partners' technical executives (C-level) and working-level engineering teams.
• Look around corners for partners, understand their business context and technical requirements, guide their architectures, and build proofs-of-concept.
• Serve as partners' technical thought leader on security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
• Maintain and grow technical skills and knowledge of industry trends.
• Develop and deliver blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures specific to Defense Tech partners on AWS.
• Mentor junior SAs and codify best practices into reusable patterns for the broader SA community.
• Identify and drive product feature requests based on customer feedback to influence AWS service roadmap.
• Travel about 30% of the time.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 4+ 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.
• Experience in GenAI deployments.