Solutions Architect II, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our National Security team supporting Intelligence Community (IC) customers. As a Solutions Architect on the AWS National Security Team you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to IC customersyou are the face of Amazon to our most mission-critical customers. You will engage across a broad variety of complex technical challenges that directly impact national security outcomes. This is a high-visibility role where you collaborate with and influence both external stakeholders and internal AWS teams including sales platform engineering and AI/ML service teams.

National Security Solutions Architects (SAs) are recognized as technical thought leaders within the Intelligence Community who evangelize emerging technologiesincluding agentic AI machine learning and computer vision not only on a conceptual level but on a practical architectural level. You will design and deliver AI-powered solutions that enable agencies to extract actionable intelligence from complex data at scale.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Key job responsibilities
Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for IC customers working backwards from mission requirements to envision innovative cloud and AI solutions that accelerate mission outcomes
Technical Thought Leadership: Evangelize emerging AI/ML and Big Data capabilities including foundation models retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agentic workflows and computer vision to IC stakeholders at both technical and executive levels
Architecture Design: Craft highly scalable resilient and secure cloud architectures that address IC business problems and accelerate adoption of AWS services across classified environments
AI/ML Solution Architecture: Design and implement generative AI machine learning and agentic AI architectures using AWS services (Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker AI Amazon Q) tailored to IC mission requirements within classified environments
Revenue Growth: Partner with AWS Sales and cross-functional teams to drive revenue growth by identifying opportunities to apply emerging technologies and cloud services to mission challenges
Product Influence: Provide direct feedback to AWS service teams on IC-specific requirements including feature requests for classified region service parity and contribute to the development of new tools and capabilities for the cleared environment
Well-Architected Reviews: Conduct AWS Well-Architected assessments with customers to ensure solutions meet best practices for security reliability performance cost optimization and sustainability


About the team
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- 2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 5 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Bachelors degree or Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
- Current active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

- 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
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies including but not limited to AI/ML GenAI Analytics Database and/or Storage

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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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans 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 VA Herndon - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually