Data Solutions Architect, National Secuity Data Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Senior

Arlington, VA

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About the position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect to support our US Government customers in the DC Metro area. This role is pivotal for those who enjoy assisting U.S. Intelligence Community agencies in implementing innovative cloud computing solutions and addressing technical challenges. The ideal candidate will leverage the latest cloud technologies to help these agencies understand application architectures and integration approaches, while also possessing the consultative and leadership skills necessary to guide projects toward success. Familiarity with security best practices for applications, servers, and networks is essential, as is a desire to contribute to the business development team that aims to establish AWS as a leading technology platform. As a Solutions Architect for our Data team, you will serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), aiding customers in designing complex solutions. Your responsibilities will include working closely with National Security customers to enable large-scale use cases and drive the adoption of advanced AWS services. You will collaborate with other Solution Architects in the field, providing guidance on customer engagements, and will be responsible for developing white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to help customers fully leverage AWS capabilities. Our Specialist Solutions Architects are recognized as technical thought leaders within the Intelligence Community, promoting emerging technologies both conceptually and practically. They play a critical role in advancing cloud computing capabilities within the Intelligence Community, delivering cost-effective, mission-focused, and secure solutions. On our team, you will work backwards from our customers to develop AWS storage solutions and migrate complex workloads to the AWS cloud. This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph, and the candidate must opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

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.
• Deploy data strategies leveraging technical depth and business experience.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Bachelor's 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

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting
• Experience working with enterprise scale data platforms
• Familiarity with data modeling concepts
• Familiarity with GenAI Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
• Strong written communication skills
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise

Benefits

• Flexibility in working hours
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups
• Innovative benefit offerings
• Annual and ongoing learning experiences