Solutions Architect Senior Manager, WWPS National Security

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs & stock options

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Herndon, VA seeks a Senior Manager of Solution Architecture to lead a cleared team and drive strategic programs for national security customers. You will bridge AWS sales leadership and product innovation to shape cloud and AI adoption for government missions.

The role requires active TS/SCI with polygraph, 8+ years of leadership in classified environments, and the ability to influence C-suite executives and roadmaps across multiple organizations.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or above in a relevant field or equivalent security credentials.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required; active TS/SCI with polygraph preferred.
• CISSP-ISSAP or CISSP-ISSEP certification desired; deep cloud security knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Serve as executive technical sponsor for strategic programs and customer capture efforts.
• Develop and maintain direct relationships with senior government executives (CIOs/CTOs/CSAs) and congressional staff.
• Influence AWS product and service roadmaps for classified environments and cloud-native AI adoption.
• Lead a 40+ person cleared Solution Architecture organization; mentor senior engineers.
• Define and execute talent strategy to build cleared technical leadership pipelines.

Skills

National security

Cloud architecture

People management

Strategic relationships

Public speaking

Security clearance TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CISSP-ISSAP/ISSEP

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

AWS is seeking a technology leader to serve as the Senior Manager of Solution Architecture for strategic national security customers. This leader owns the technical priorities for a team of highly technical solutions architects. This leader serves as the critical bridge between AWS sales leadership and product innovation to deliver customer mission outcomes. The role requires independent engagement with the end customer governement Senior Executive Technical leadership, peer-level influence across multiple organizations, and product roadmap influence. This leader is able to combine their national security customer domain and technical depth to deliver a technology and account strategy to shape the future of cloud and AI adoption for aligned end customers in national security.

Functional Experience & Key Leadership Principles

• Technical Sponsorship & Customer Obsession: experience leading technology team in IT, cloud computing, or technology leadership
• Experience developing and maintaining strategic relationships with customer executives at national security agencies.
• Experience representing organizations as a speaker external and internally.
• Experience shaping customer strategy and influencing technology roadmaps toward cloud-native and AI-first outcomes.
• Experience owning technical win strategy for AI adoption, mission resilience, and modernization across a government agency.
• Experience authoring thought leadership on adoption of technology (Cloud, GenAI, agentic AI).

People Leadership & Hire and Develop the Best:

• 8+ years of people management experience with demonstrated experience leading technical teams in classified environments.
• Experience building and sustaining cleared technical talent pipelines in competitive markets for technologists.
• Experience mentoring senior individual contributors.

Operational Excellence & Deliver Results:

• Experience defining team priorities and delivering against organizational goals and metrics aligned to growth targets.
• Experience driving mechanisms that scale technical excellence: solution reviews, architecture decisions, and reusable reference architectures.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as executive technical sponsor for the portfolio's most strategic programs, customers, and capture efforts.
• Develop and maintain direct, strategic relationships with customer C-suite leaders (CIOs, CTOs, CDAOs, Special Advisors) at agencies and congressional oversight bodies.
• Represent AWS as a speaker at senior government and congressional forums Drive measurable adoption of next-generation architectures across the national security customer base.
• Jointly own the technical win rate and pipeline with Sales leadership.
• Influence AWS product and service team roadmap priorities for classified and air-gapped environments.
• Lead a 40+ person cleared Solution Architecture organization, including senior managers and principal architects.
• Own the cleared talent strategy: identify, develop, retain, and grow the next generation of technical leaders.
• Build and sustain the cleared technical talent pipeline for technologists.
• Define and execute organizational goals and metrics aligned to $1.5B+ revenue and growth targets.
• Manage cross-functional operating rhythms with Sales, Services, Professional Services, and Partner teams.
• This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Basic Qualifications

• Associate's degree or above, or CISSP-ISSAP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) or CISSP-ISSEP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience
• AWS Professional level certification
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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USA, VA, Herndon - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually