Solutions Architect, EdTech Strategic ISVs

## Responsibilities - Own the technical engagement and outcomes for a portfolio of EdTech ISV accounts, from discovery through production scale. - Lead technical deep-dives, whiteboarding sessions, and executive briefings. - Guide foundational architecture decisions across compute, storage, networking, identity, and databases, helping customers choose between EC2, EKS, ECS, and Lambda, and across RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and analytics services for the workload at hand. - Lead architecture and design conversations on generative AI applications built on Amazon Bedrock, including agentic patterns, retrieval, evaluations, and guardrails appropriate for education workloads handling student data. - Partner with customers on the security, data-governance, and architectural decisions that shape how their products serve K-12 districts, higher-education institutions, and state education agencies. - Help customers modernize core platforms onto AWS using containers, serverless, and managed data services so their AI roadmap has a foundation to stand on, and help them tune those platforms for performance, reliability, and cost as they scale. - Stay current with the AWS service roadmap and the EdTech market, and translate both into concrete recommendations for your customers. ## Requirements - Ability to travel up to 30%. - Experience working with EdTech ISVs and their products, including learning management systems, student information systems, assessment platforms, enrollment management, and adaptive courseware. - Strong technical background in cloud computing, with expertise in AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and analytics services. - Experience with generative AI and agentic systems, particularly in the context of education and privacy-sensitive environments. - Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance in regulated environments, including FERPA, COPPA, and state student-data-privacy laws. - Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams, including engineering teams, leadership, and AWS specialists. - Ability to prepare executive briefings, write technical content, and contribute to team knowledge-sharing. ## Nice to Have - Experience with containerization, serverless, and managed data services. - Familiarity with AWS service roadmaps and the EdTech market. - Experience with AI prototype development and production system deployment. - Strong understanding of performance, reliability, and cost optimization in cloud environments. ## Benefits - Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and agentic systems in the education sector. - Collaborate with leading EdTech ISVs and their engineering teams. - Travel opportunities for workshops, design sprints, and AWS events like re:Invent. - Work with a team focused on enabling impactful technology solutions for education.