Enterprise Architect, WWPS FedCiv

Do you like helping U.S. Government agencies design, visualize, and realize innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for planning, visualizing, and leading these groups in understanding application architectures and integration approaches? Do you have the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success?
Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented, hands-on, and technical enterprise architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.
Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

We are looking for someone who will:
- Be great fun to work with at AWS, we have a credo of "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.
- Enjoy working with U.S. Federal customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of U.S. Federal customers.
- Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or enterprise architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create truly innovative solutions built on AWS.

It is expected to work from one of the above locations (or customer sites) at least 1 days in a week. This is not a remote position. You are expected to be in the office or with customers as needed.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with Polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

About the team
Why AWS?
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Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5 years of experience building and implementing technical infrastructure and services, and/or consulting experience advising such operations
- 2 years in a technical leadership role e.g. Engineering/Technology Lead, Senior Solutions Architect, Lead Architect/Engineer, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade architectures for US government agencies, enterprise grade solution and collaborating with development teams to break down functional pieces into a customer implementation roadmap
- Strong background/ experience working with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g. SAFe, TOGAF, Business Capability maps, Value Maps) and management frameworks (e.g. ITIL v3 processes, COBIT, CMMI)
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade architectures for U.S. Government agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C-level executives.
- Broad based technology experience including cloud computing, applications development, DevOps, IoT, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, networking, security, storage, compute, continuous deployment, containers, and management and monitoring.
- Visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to enterprise IT infrastructure and adoption.
- Use of AWS services in distributed environments with Enterprise Software.
- Hands-on experience with cloud migration initiatives as an AWS customer or consulting with a customer on their IT transformations

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit ;br>
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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