GovTech ISV Solutions Architect — AI & Cloud

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Solutions Architect for GovTech ISVs in Austin, TX. You will own the technical relationship with a portfolio of ISVs and lead architectural deep dives to shape their architectures on AWS.

The role involves hands-on prototyping, reference implementations, and guiding customers through compute, data, networking, identity, and cost at scale while ensuring compliance with CJIS, StateRAMP, FedRAMP, and HIPAA requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 5+ years of cloud-based solution, system, network and OS experience, or AWS Pro level certification.
• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership on technical trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation.
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy for a product.
• Experience with Data & AI technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, DB, and storage.
• Experience with container and serverless architectures.

Responsibilities

• Guide ISV architecture decisions across compute, data, networking, identity, and databases.
• Run discovery with ISV teams to understand platform constraints and customer requirements.
• Lead generative AI work on Amazon Bedrock: agentic patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails, evaluation, and responsible AI practices.
• Help ISVs turn AI prototypes into production systems meeting public sector requirements.
• Modernize legacy platforms onto AWS with phased strategies like strangler fig, replatforming, and domain decomposition.
• Explain compliance shaping architecture in regulated environments (CJIS, StateRAMP, FedRAMP, HIPAA, data residency).
• Communicate architecture decisions to ISV CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and government CIOs.
• Advise ISVs on AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering teams.

Skills

Architectural design

Cloud solutions

Executive communication

AI/GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Kiro

Amazon Q Developer

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Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Solutions Architect for GovTech ISVs in Austin, TX. You will own the technical relationship with a portfolio of ISVs and lead architectural deep dives to shape their architectures on AWS.

The role involves hands-on prototyping, reference implementations, and guiding customers through compute, data, networking, identity, and cost at scale while ensuring compliance with CJIS, StateRAMP, FedRAMP, and HIPAA requirements.