Senior Solutions Architect, Fed Tech ISV Partners

Overview

Solutions Architects guide AWS customers and partners in complex cloud deployments that drive business outcomes. You will work with our most strategic Federal Technology partners—where workload performance matters, delivery timelines are important, and requirements evolve constantly. You'll map technical challenges, structure delivery approaches, and help them ship solutions fast. This includes scoping, sequencing, and architecting full‑stack cloud solutions that create measurable value, while driving clarity across internal AWS teams and external stakeholders.

• Guiding partners in designing and creating complex, multi‑service workloads on AWS, driving end‑to‑end, strategic, technical value for public sector customers.
• Leading engagement and relationship building with partners' technical executives (C‑level) and engineering teams.
• Looking around corners for partners, understanding business context and technical requirements, guiding architectures, and building proofs‑of‑concept.
• Serving as partners' technical thought leader on cloud, security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
• Maintaining and growing technical skills and knowledge of industry trends.
• Developing and delivering blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures specific to Fed Tech partners on AWS.
• Mentoring junior Solutions Architects and codifying best practices into reusable patterns for the broader SA community.
• Identifying and driving product feature requests based on customer feedback to influence AWS service roadmap.
• Traveling about 30% of the time.

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 4+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.
• Experience in GenAI deployments.
• U.S. citizenship (required).

• 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.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans), EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and more. Compensation includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Salary range: $176,600 – $239,000 USD annually (varies by location).