Senior Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners

About the role

The Senior Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners, guides AWS customers and partners in complex cloud deployments that drive mission outcomes. This role involves working directly with senior technology and business leaders, helping them adopt AWS, maximize mission impact, and ensure successful deployments at scale.

Responsibilities

• Guide partners in designing and creating complex, multi-service workloads on AWS, driving end-to-end, strategic technical value for public sector customers
• 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

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
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of AWS services, customer base, and industry verticals
• Experience in the Defense sector

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.