Manager, Solutions Architect - Federal Civilian Agencies, WWPS Solutions Architecture Federal Civilian Agencies

This position can reside in DC, VA, MD The agencies that protect the homeland, enforce federal law, and move people and goods across the country are all racing to modernize and adopting generative AI for missions that range from border security to air traffic control. This role puts you at the center of that transformation, leading a team of Solutions Architects who are designing the technical future of these missions on AWS. As Manager of Solutions Architecture for Homeland Security, Enforcement, and Transportation, you will lead a team of architects serving the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies, the Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation, Amtrak, and the U.S. Postal Service. Your team's work spans border security and immigration systems, air traffic control modernization, mainframe-to-cloud cutovers, generative AI adoption for federal prosecutors, and enterprise migrations that touch hundreds of thousands of federal employees. You will own the technical strategy, pipeline development, and talent growth for three of the fastest-moving segments in AWS Federal Civilian. Why This Role, Why Now The opportunity in front of these accounts is accelerating, not plateauing: Generative AI is unlocking new workloads. This role exists to convert that momentum into durable growth. You will take ownership of these segments, accelerate customer deployments, and develop a team that sustains this trajectory into 2027 and beyond.

Lead, coach, and develop a team of Solutions Architects spanning homeland security, federal law enforcement, and transportation agencies — setting technical direction, running regular one-on-ones, and building promotion-ready talent at every level. Own segment-level pipeline strategy and monthly business reviews, identifying gaps early and driving targeted outreach to replace lost opportunities and expand coverage across under-penetrated accounts. Architect and execute the generative AI adoption roadmap for all three segments — converting early pilots into production workloads and removing the specific technical and procurement barriers slowing adoption in key agencies. Serve as the escalation point and competitive strategist for your portfolio, engaging directly with agency CIOs and chief data officers to defend existing positions and win displacement opportunities against incumbent platforms. Coordinate across account management, professional services, and specialist teams to ensure migration execution stays on track across more than a dozen active workload moves. A Day in the Life Your morning starts with a standup alongside your architects and account managers covering the portfolio. Mid-morning, you join an architect who is preparing for a customer whiteboard session on hybrid infrastructure for a customer site; you pressure-test the architecture, suggest a different approach to network segmentation, and make sure the cost model holds up. After lunch, you shift to pipeline. You review the monthly numbers for your segments, flag an opportunity that has stalled in procurement, and draft talking points for an upcoming meeting with a chief data officer who is weighing cloud platforms. Late afternoon, you have a one-on-one with a mid-career architect: you review their promotion document together, identify a gap in their operational narrative, and agree on a stretch project that will close it. You end the day reviewing a migration runbook for a corrections agency cutover scheduled for next week, confirming that the partner team and your architect are aligned on the rollback plan.

The Homeland, Enforcement, and Transportation Solutions Architecture team — part of AWS Federal Civilian — serves more than twenty agency accounts across three segments. The architects on this team design and deliver cloud solutions for some of the most complex and consequential federal missions in the country: border