Senior Solutions Architect, Federal Civilian

Application deadline: Jul 28, 2026

About the role

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing US Federal Civilian Health business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a solutions architect on the US Federal Civilian team, you will help Civilian Health agencies meet their mission goals through using cloud. You will be part of a collaborative team focused on personal and professional growth with both mentorship and the mentoring of others.

As a Sr Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of GenAI and Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS SageMaker and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrator and solution providers.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects
• Define implementation architectures, respond to RFPs
• Develop deep expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform
• Serve as a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services
• Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to customers while working with a world-class sales and business development team
• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community
• Collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• 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
• Passion for helping customers design and create cloud computing architectures
• Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to keep technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Technical presentation experience (whiteboard, small and large group presentations)
• Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing, databases, big data, and analytics
• Web site/services operations, management, database administration, and security experience

About the team

Diverse Experiences
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.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Pay

USA, VA, Arlington - $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.