Data Specialist Solutions Architect, National Security Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Solutions Architect to support our US Government customers in the DC Metro area.

Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community agencies 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 these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success Are you familiar with security best practices for applications servers and networks Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform Would you like to be part of a sales group but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies

At Amazon weve been investing deeply in building the right solutions that allow you to derive the most value from your data. AWS is looking for a solutions architect for our Data team who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) helping customers to design complex solutions. As part of the team you will work closely with National Security customers to enable large-scale use cases and drive the adoption of advanced AWS services. You will interact with other Solution Architects in the field providing guidance on their customer engagements and you will develop white papers blogs reference implementations and presentations to enable customers to fully leverage AWS.

Our Specialist Solutions Architects are regarded as technical thought leaders within the Intelligence Community who evangelize emerging technologies not only on a conceptual level but also on a practical architectural level. Our SAs play a critical role in the widespread adoption and advancement of cloud computing capabilities within the Intelligence Community. They think outside of the box to deliver results and provide solutions that are cost-effective mission-focused and secure. On our team you will work backwards from our customers to develop AWS data solutions and migrate complex workloads to the AWS cloud.

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

Key job responsibilities
Be a subject matter expert on AWS data services including Glue Athena Redshift and OpenSearch for our Account teams and customers.
Have experience in architecture design and engineering of data platforms and DataOps solutions
Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
Provide advanced technical knowledge to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.
You will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy data strategies
Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc.
Partner with Sales Specialist teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts solutions and initiatives.
Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

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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 CASP (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

- Experience in technology/software sales pre-sales or consulting
- AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers and strong written communication skills.
- Experience working with enterprise scale data platforms
- Familiarity with data modeling concepts
- Familiarity with GenAI Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Machine Learning (ML)

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