Sr. Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence, Asia Pacific, Global Government, Global Government

Would you like to help Asia Pacific nations adopt cloud and AI to meet their most critical national security and defence requirements? Do you have the commercial experience, defence domain knowledge, and drive to help governments accelerate mission outcomes through technology?

As an AWS Solutions Architect focused on National Security & Defence (NSD) in Asia Pacific, you will provide deep technical knowledge for NSD customers across the region. Asia Pacific nations face a rapidly evolving security landscape and are investing at pace in cloud and AI capabilities to strengthen sovereignty, improve intelligence and operational readiness, and modernise defence forces. You will be at the centre of helping these customers turn technology ambition into mission reality.

The ideal candidate will be a driven technologies who understands the national security and defence context well enough to earn trust with senior government and military leaders, articulate compelling value propositions for cloud and AI adoption, and shape customer use cases into AWS design patterns to deliver integrated solutions. You will work cross-functionally with AWS country teams, solutions architects, and partners to build solutions and deliver measurable outcomes for customers.

With AWS, our customers benefit from the fastest pace of innovation, the broadest and deepest functionality, the most secure computing environment, and the most proven operational expertise. In this role, you will bring these capabilities to bear for national security and defence customers across Asia Pacific, helping them solve problems that matter at national scale.

You will be part of a small, focused team of NSD domain and technical experts driven by customer mission. Your week will move between engaging senior defence and national security leaders, working with AWS country teams to align domain expertise with local execution, shaping partner propositions, and identifying where cloud and AI can make a material difference to how nations defend sovereignty and protect citizens. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, builds trust quickly, and turns opportunity into outcomes.

This position requires that the candidate selected hold, or be able to attain, appropriate security clearance in their country of residence.


Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will collaborate with customers, partners and AWS teams to craft architectures, proof of concepts or demonstrations of our platform that work back from customer's business needs and accelerate the adoption of appropriate AWS technology. You will help design solutions covering domains from migration of core enterprise applications to working with AI/ML, microservices, containers, app development, IoT to name a few building in a secure and scalable manner. The ability to learn new technology and develop industry relevant architectures and convey business value is critical to the role.

- Earn trust and build relationships at executive level across government departments, defence organisations, and national security agencies in the region.
- Articulate compelling value propositions for cloud and AI adoption in national security and defence contexts, translating technology capabilities into outcomes that resonate with mission owners.
- Work closely with AWS country teams to align NSD domain expertise with local market execution, ensuring coherence between global NSD strategy and in-country delivery.
- Work cross-functionally with AWS specialist, solutions architecture, partner, legal, and leadership teams to remove barriers and accelerate customer outcomes.
- Represent AWS in regional defence and national security forums, industry events, and senior customer engagements.

A day in the life
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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
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, or experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with networks, IT infrastructure, or system integration
- Experience working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or Cloud Technology Certification
- Experience in the public sector
- Working knowledge in Data engineering and analytics technologies such as real-time analytics, ETL and Machine Learning

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