Solutions Architect, Defense Tech ISV Partners

Application deadline: Jul 28, 2026

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

You will work directly with technology and business leaders as their technical thought partner, guiding cloud adoption, maximizing mission impact, and ensuring successful deployments at scale. Along the way, you’ll identify reusable architectural patterns, codify best practices, and share field signal that influences AWS’s product and service roadmap.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide our partners in designing and creating complex, multi‑service workloads on AWS, driving end‑to‑end, strategic technical value for public sector customers.
• Lead engagement and relationship building with our partners’ technical executives (Director, VP, and C‑level) and working‑level engineering teams.
• Look around corners for our partners, understand their business context and technical requirements, guide their architectures, and build proofs‑of‑concept.
• Serve as our partners’ technical thought leader on security, GenAI, analytics, and modernization.
• Maintain and grow your technical skills and knowledge of industry trends.
• Develop and deliver blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures specific to Defense Tech partners on AWS.
• Identify and drive product feature requests based on customer feedback to influence AWS service roadmap.
• Travel about 30% of the time.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 2+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 4+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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