Solutions Architect Senior Manager, WWPS National Security

Amazon is hiring a Solutions Architect Senior Manager, WWPS National Security. It pays $201k-$272k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this solutions architect role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Pay on this posting starts 20% higher than the typical solutions architect posting on Level.
The posting mentions AWS, cloud computing and technical leadership among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead a team of solutions architects driving cloud and AI adoption strategies for strategic national security customers at AWS.

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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.

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.

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

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

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

How we rate this

Solutions Architect Senior Manager, WWPS National Security at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Solutions Architect Senior Manager, WWPS National Security is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $201k-$272k a year.
The role is based in US, VA, Herndon.
The job was posted on September 11, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Cloud ComputingTechnical LeadershipNational SecuritySolution ArchitectureArtificial IntelligenceAWS

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Pay

This job starts at: $201k
Typical solutions architect job: $168k

This posting starts 20% above the typical solutions architect job. See solutions architect jobs

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Tell me about a project where artificial intelligence was part of your work. What did you do?

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