Solution Architect

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Solution Architect with a strong engineering background, customer-facing communication skills, and a history of experience supporting large-scale systems design and implementations. This role serves as the architectural leader for a large-scale system modernization effort for one of our Federal Civilian customers and will involve guiding the effort to develop, maintain, and implement a future-state solution architecture and roadmap to meet customer mission and operational objectives and needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate with customers, stakeholders, program functions, and technical teams on architecture design and implementation
• Understand needs and capability gaps and develop associated architectural vision and solution strategies.
• Develop and maintain the target architecture and technology roadmap.
• Align multiple efforts and functions to effectively integrate systems, processes, and plans to meet evolving needs.
• Design and own end-to-end solution architecture that meets customer mission and operational objectives, needs, and requirements.
• Identify secure, robust, flexible, and efficient solutions.
• Define a concept of operations and the procedures and tools required to enable delivery of associated products and services.
• Integrate system architecture considerations and support activities across system lifecycle.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, and data flows.
• Guide and validate architecture decisions.
• Lead identification and evaluation of solution options through structured analysis of alternatives methods.
• Provide input to program risk management activities.
• Incorporate human factors, human-system-integration, and organizational change considerations into target architecture implementation planning.
• Govern architecture compliance across the project and change management processes
• Define architecture frameworks, guidance, and best practices to be used. 
• Establish and maintain an architecture governance framework, including an architecture review process.
• Provide architectural review of engineering deliverables and packages.
• Create and maintain authoritative architecture deliverables that clearly communicate architectures and implementations plans for various audiences and levels of abstraction.
• Present solutions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders to foster shared understanding and obtain buy-in.
• Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support engineering, operations, and other needs
• Ensure all documentation is accurate, current, and accessible to engineering and operations teams

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher
• 12+ years of professional experience with five years or more of Architect experience
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field. Four years of professional experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong customer and stakeholder engagement skills including demonstrated success in facilitating solution architecture design and planning.
• Experience partnering directly with PMO/Program Leadership to integrate architecture into budget planning, contract strategy, and vendor management approaches.
• Experience conducting prototype or pilot efforts to validate solution approaches prior to enterprise rollout.
• Demonstrated ability to architect solutions that account for sustainment, O&M cost optimization, and lifecycle cost estimation.
• Demonstrated success resolving architectural disputes across diverse stakeholder groups using structured decision frameworks (e.g., trade studies).
• Strong written and oral communication and leadership skills with demonstrated success in leading technical leadership and teams.
• Experience collaborating with non-technical customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams including UX Design, Product Management, and other Engineering and Operations functions to design and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineering teams on architectural patterns, emerging technologies, and solution engineering best practices.
• Understanding and hands-on experience supporting federal government IT requirements including cybersecurity risk management processes and controls.
• Experience in leading development of common technical architecture documentation artifacts.
• Strong engineering background, including expertise in 3 or more of the areas below
  • Software Design and Development
  • Software Delivery and Operations
  • System Engineering
  • Cybersecurity Engineering and Assurance
  • Infrastructure services and operations
  • Cloud infrastructure and services
• #TechModernization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Azure cloud services and related low-code solutions
• Experience designing and migrating to cloud-native system architectures
• Experience in ServiceNow platform application development and integration
• Ability to design architectures supporting advanced analytics, ML/Ops readiness, and enterprise‑scale data ingestion pipelines
• Experience integrating architectural practices with agile development methodologies
• Experience with designing solutions for classified environments, including secure data integration and bidirectional transfers across different security domains
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices for secure development
• Experience with formal Enterprise and System Architecture methodologies and modeling frameworks such as UAF, TOGAF, Arcadia, ArchiMate, and SysMLv2
• Experience leading projects applying formal System Engineering practices
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native applications
• Experience supporting system verification activities
• Experience designing and operationalizing Generative AI–enabled capabilities within enterprise environments, including integrating LLM‑based services into production workflows, establishing governance and safety controls, and aligning AI-driven solution patterns with enterprise architecture standards
• Relevant certifications such as
  • Azure Professional Certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Enterprise Architect or Systems Engineering certifications
  • SAFe® certifications
  • ServiceNow certifications such as Certified Technical Architect or Certified Master Architect preferred