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# Senior Solutions Architect, Global Defense Partners

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $153,600.0 - $207,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Databases, Information Engineering, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, IT Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8973028/senior-solutions-architect-global-defense-partners

## About the Role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a highly motivated Sr. Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing Global Defense Partners business., 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
 - 8+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

 - 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
 - Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
 - Bachelor's degree
 - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
 - Experience with AI/ML, HPC, digital engineering, advanced manufacturing, or data engineering workloads on AWS
 - Familiarity with defense compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, CMMC, DoD SRG, ITAR)

## Description

As a Sr. Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to advance our customer's mission through the use of AWS services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, HPC, Amazon Bedrock etc.) directly with our ecosystem of systems integrators, consulting and technology partners. You will accomplish this as part of a cross-functional team working together in support of the federal missions, with strong sense of building art of possible proof of concepts (PoCs) to solve customer's problems.

The Solutions Architects on our team provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to the Federal Government markets while working with a sales and business development team. They lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community. You get to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture!

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

Key job responsibilities
-Owning the technical engagement and technical strategy with our customers.
-Building art of possible proof of concepts (PoCs) to solve customer's problems.
-Defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, developing a deep expertise both in AWS technologies, as well as the customer mission space.


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