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AMS Cloud Architect III, AWS Managed Services (AMS)
$154K–$208K
Herndon, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Herndon, VA
Dallas, TX - Experience
- 7+ years in technical specialist, design, and architecture; 5+ years in database experience; 7+ years in serverless distributed solutions; 5+ years in software development; 3+ years in cloud-based solutions, systems, networks, and operating systems; 7+ years in customer-facing complex, large-scale project management; 5+ years in cloud architecture and solution implementation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience.
About the job
Own technical relationships with enterprise customers and guide AWS adoption, architecture, and cloud migrations across several industry verticals.
What you'll do
- Advise customers on building and migrating applications using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Lead architectural discussions, customer training, and technical relationships with senior customer stakeholders.
- Support AWS business development strategy and share best practices through community contributions and customer-facing publications.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of technical specialist, design, and architecture experience.
- 5+ years of database experience; 7+ years of consulting, design, and implementation of serverless distributed solutions; and 5+ years of software development with an object-oriented language.
- 3+ years of cloud-based solution, system, network, and operating system experience; 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation; and 7+ years of customer-facing complex, large-scale project management.
- Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience; U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
Nice to have
- Advanced technology degree or AWS Professional level certification.
- Knowledge of AWS services, HIPAA and GDPR, cloud performance optimization and cost management, or technical communication in pre-sales environments.
Pay
153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary); 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Serverless
AI focus
The posting describes industry trends including AI/ML and mentions machine learning among AWS services, but does not specify AI work as a core job responsibility.
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