Senior Solutions Architect - Amazon Leo for Government

Description

Can you sit with a mission owner, find out what keeps their forces disconnected, whiteboard the fix, and then show it working live? Amazon Leo is building a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to deliver fast, reliable broadband to places existing networks can't reach. Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) brings that capability to US and allied government missions.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Solutions Architect on the ALG Solutions Architecture team, you will be the technical lead for an aligned set of US customers, from the first mission conversation through architecture, accreditation, integration, and operational use. You'll partner closely with business development, product, engineering, operations, and AWS teams, and you'll be the customer's voice back into the product.
Key job responsibilities include:
- Lead the technical side of pursuits with business development, shaping and advancing opportunities
- Run mission discovery and work backwards from operational requirements to Leo architectures covering terminals, coverage, network integration, and ground systems
- Deliver customer briefings and live demonstrations tailored to each customer's mission
- Guide customers through security posture, data protection, and accreditation pathways
- Handle hard technical questions and objections with candor and data, without overpromising
- Scope Professional Services engagements and help deliver them when your context is the fastest path to the outcome
- Enable partners and integrators, and provide technical oversight on strategic partner-led deliveries
- Capture customer requirements as structured feature requests, and give product a clear view of what the field is hearing
- Build reusable reference architectures, demos, and field content, and help mentor and certify other SAs

Security Clearance: This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must be able to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.

About the team
We are a small, growing team in the US and internationally. We deliver as one team with Leo engineering, product, operations, so customers see one plan and one accountable technical lead.

Basic Qualifications

- 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
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- 3+ years of satellite communications ground systems and operations experience
- Experience with networking fundamentals
- 5+ years of work with U.S. Federal customers experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.