Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS Global Defense Partners
Description
Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success? As a Senior Solutions Architect within the AWS WWPS Partner team, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of AWS services—including AI/ML, high-performance computing (HPC), advanced analytics, digital engineering, and manufacturing systems modernization—directly with our ecosystem of defense-sector systems integrators, consulting and technology partners. You will serve as a dedicated technical resource for high-growth defense partners navigating critical cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, leading strategic engagement at the executive level with minimal oversight.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects
- Define implementation architectures across compute, data, machine learning, and operational tooling
- 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 defense industry workflows, compliance frameworks, and the unique technical challenges of mission-critical environments
- Drive architectural decisions across multiple concurrent partner engagements, ensuring AWS is positioned as the strategic platform of choice
About The Team
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Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with AI/ML, HPC, digital engineering, advanced manufacturing, or data engineering workloads on AWS
- Familiarity with defense compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, CMMC, DoD SRG, ITAR)