Senior GovTech Solutions Architect — AI & Cloud Scale

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to accelerate GovTech expansion in the Worldwide Public Sector.

You will own the technical relationship with GovTech ISVs, guiding architecture, security, and data governance decisions for production-scale AI workloads on AWS. You’ll lead deep technical discussions, advise on compute/storage/networking, and help customers modernize their platforms with containers and serverless, ensuring scalable, cost-effective solutions in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 5+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and OS experience, or AWS Professional level certification
• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
• Experience with designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies

Responsibilities

• Own the technical engagement and outcomes for a portfolio of GovTech ISV accounts, from discovery through production scale.
• Lead technical deep-dives, whiteboarding sessions, and executive briefings.
• Guide foundational architecture decisions across compute, storage, networking, identity, and databases, helping customers choose between EC2, EKS, ECS, and Lambda, and across RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and analytics services for the workload at hand.
• Lead architecture and design conversations on generative AI applications built on Amazon Bedrock, including agentic patterns, retrieval, evaluations, and guardrails appropriate for public-sector workloads.
• Partner with customers on the security, data-governance, and architectural decisions that shape how their products serve state and local government and public safety buyers.
• Help customers modernize core platforms onto AWS using containers, serverless, and managed data services so their AI roadmap has a foundation to stand on, and help them tune those platforms for performance, reliability, and cost as they scale.
• Stay current with the AWS service roadmap and the GovTech market, and translate both into concrete recommendations for your customers.

Skills

Leadership discussions

Data & AI technologies

Container & serverless architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience

Tools

Kiro

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Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to accelerate GovTech expansion in the Worldwide Public Sector.

You will own the technical relationship with GovTech ISVs, guiding architecture, security, and data governance decisions for production-scale AI workloads on AWS. You’ll lead deep technical discussions, advise on compute/storage/networking, and help customers modernize their platforms with containers and serverless, ensuring scalable, cost-effective solutions in