Senior Data Protection Specialist Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise in critical security domains. This role focuses on data protection, encryption, key management, and secure architectures across scalable environments.

The Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect for Data Protection leads complex engagements, collaborates with service teams, and shapes best practices for secure AI deployments and data sovereignty compliance.

Qualifications

• 6+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex data protection engagements with enterprise customers, guiding their adoption of AWS data protection services including AWS KMS, AWS Private CA, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Payment Cryptography, and AWS CloudHSM.
• Lead technical strategy for encryption and key management architectures, including hybrid, multi-cloud, and post-quantum cryptography migration planning.
• Help customers secure their generative AI and agentic workloads by designing data protection architectures that maintain confidentiality, integrity, and access control as data flows through AI pipelines.
• Amplify voice of the customer back to AWS data protection product teams, surface field patterns, identify gaps, and translate feedback into clear requirements that shape the roadmap.

Skills

Security expertise

Cloud computing

Infrastructure experience

Executive communication

Job description

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise in critical security domains. This role focuses on data protection, encryption, key management, and secure architectures across scalable environments.

The Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect for Data Protection leads complex engagements, collaborates with service teams, and shapes best practices for secure AI deployments and data sovereignty compliance.