Solutions Architect II, National Security Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior 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 customers—you 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 technologies—including 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
Diverse Experiences

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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
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Associate's degree or above, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually