Job Title: Sr. Solutions Architect

Location: Washington D.C. – Hybrid

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

As an Engineering /Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility will
be to align people, process, tools, and organizational culture to
satisfy customer requirements:

- Serve as the primary technical face of the organization to key
customers and stakeholders

- Proactively ensure customer satisfaction, deeply understand their
mission-critical needs and strategic objectives, and drive alignment
between customer expectations and the engineering organization’s
delivery roadmap to guarantee successful mission outcomes.

- Collaborate closely with system and software architects and product
teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our system and software
development lifecycle

- Define document and communicate the overall solution architecture to
create alignment between customers, management, and engineering
staff

- Refine, elaborate, and document customer requirements

- Define and document appropriate technologies to satisfy requirements

- Develop and maintain architectural best practices

- Collaborate with engineering teams to solve technical problems and
prioritize issues

- Mentor other architects and engineers

- Advises and oversees the software testing process to ensure that all
NFRs are clearly tested.

- Provide general day-to-day leadership of medium to large engineering
organizations

- Negotiate timelines and manage expectations with stakeholders and
engineering teams

- Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary.

- Identifies potential risks and issues related to the solution and
takes appropriate steps to mitigate them

Minimum/General Experience/Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering,
Information Technology, or a related technical discipline (Bachelor
of Science or Bachelor of Arts)

- Required Experience:

- 20+ years of related experience

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in related technologies with
progressively increasing scope of responsibility

- Technical Certifications

- Leadership Experience:

- Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience

- Proven strong leadership, conflict-resolution, and
problem-solving skills

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to track and manage
multiple deliverables and timelines across product teams and
task orders

- Core Solution Architecture Capabilities:

- Demonstrated ability to independently develop technical
roadmaps, architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and
supporting visuals to drive alignment and communicate long-term
direction

- Strong presentation skills with the ability to confidently
articulate in-depth technical concepts and recommendations to
both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Hands-on experience leading the end-to-end evaluation of
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and components for
technical fit, security, performance, scalability, and
integration within complex environment

- Key Technical Experience:

- Broad and current knowledge of the technology landscape and
emerging computing trends

- Prior experience on multiple large-scale technology projects
spanning diverse technologies, approaches, and problem domains

- Hands-on experience with cloud migration programs

- Practical experience implementing DevSecOps practices, Agile
methodologies, and associated toolchains

- Proficiency in architecture modeling using SysML or UML

- Experience designing and implementing microservices and
API-first architectures

- Working knowledge of NIST cybersecurity frameworks and controls

- Platform & Tool Experience:

- Recent experience with Microsoft Azure (preferred) or other
major cloud providers

- Prior hands-on work with ServiceNow and Git/GitLab (Preferred)
or equivalent modern DevOps tooling

- Specialized Environment Experience:

- Recent and verifiable experience designing, deploying, or
architecting solutions in DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact
Level 6 (IL6) environments, including familiarity with
associated security controls, ATO processes, and classified
cloud requirements

- Demonstratable experience solutioning and driving modernization
of legacy applications and architecture end to end in an Azure
environment