Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners

About the role

Solutions Architects guide AWS customers and partners in complex cloud deployments that drive mission outcomes. You will work with our most strategic Defense Technology partners—where workload performance matters, delivery timelines are important, and requirements evolve constantly.

Responsibilities

• You Will Work On The Public Sector Partners Team, Where You Will Own The Technical Relationship With Defense Tech Partners Adopting AWS—from First Whiteboard Session To Production At Scale.
• You'll Design Cloud Architectures That Solve Real Mission Problems, Help Partners Ship GenAI And Data Solutions Using The Full Breadth Of AWS, And Ensure Every Engagement Lands With Measurable Impact.
• Specifically, You Will Guide our 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 our partners' technical executives (Director, VP, and C-level) and working-level engineering teams.
• Look around corners for our partners, understand their business context and technical requirements, guide their architectures, and build proofs-of-concept.
• Serve as our partners' technical thought leader on security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
• Maintain and grow your technical skills and knowledge of industry trends.
• Develop and deliver blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures specific to Defense Tech partners on AWS.
• Identify and drive product feature requests based on customer feedback to influence AWS service roadmap.
• Travel about 30% of the time.

Requirements

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 2+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 4+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent understanding of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
• Knowledge of AWS services and architecture principles.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Full-time.