Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Leo for Government

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The mission of Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) is to leverage Leo and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to United States and allied government customers. This position will be working on the Product Management Team within ALG with significant interaction with the Leo Government Business Development team and Government customers.

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Key job responsibilities
We have an immediate opening for a Sr Solutions Architect to support the Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) team focusing on DoD customers based in in the Northern Virginia area. This position will be part of the ALG team working with Business Development and customers to define Leo Government families of products within Project Leo’s broadband space network. This team works closely with customers, business development and the engineering team to ensure that the product will meet customer requirements and presents a good business opportunity.
• Work with business development and customers to help understand and refine their use cases and operational problems to solve
• Work with Engineering to invent new products or product features
• Create product requirements documents based on an intimate knowledge of the specific customer verticals (local, state, federal, DoD, intelligence community) including use case prioritization and feature definition
• Work with leadership team to set the customer strategy and make appropriate high-judgment trade-offs between features and speed-to-launch
• Research and identify new opportunities to innovate on behalf of our customers
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Write proposals based on product and service offerings of the ALG Team.

Security Clearance: This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

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.

USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually