Solutions Architect

About Tenacious Solutions, LLC

Tenacious Solutions, LLC is an 8(a) certified small business interested in taking on the toughest challenges and producing long-lasting, quality results. Our goal is to support federal clients by providing top-notch quality professionals.

We Have a Strong Belief That Our Employees Are Our Greatest Asset, And We Treat Them As Such. In Addition To Offering a Competitive Salary We Also Offer

Responsibilities

• Create standards, use automation when available, document new solutions, and ensure and establish data pipelines.
• Oversee/conduct user acceptance testing and provide initial and refresher training on new capabilities.
• Translate the clients' business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex IT solutions and integrating architecture.
• Provide expertise and guidance on architecture designed to address client business problems.
• Analyze and identify all or part of an organization's existing or new peripheral, network, and telecommunications systems requirements, taking into consideration the special technology needs.
• Establish functional and technical specifications and standards, solve hardware/software interface problems, define input/output parameters, and ensure integration of the system or subsystem via data exchange methodologies.
• Participate in technical exchange and governance meetings used to develop, issue, and monitor the implementation of guidance on systems/architectures.
• Provide technical support and guidance to clients on what technologies best meet their business needs.
• Support with management of overall agency IT portfolio including provide recommendations on Target Architecture and selection of new IT into portfolio that is aligned to Target Architecture.
• Analyze client's business problems and provide recommendations on what technologies and accompanying processes will solve their issue.
• Maintain clients' database with performance analysis tools.

Qualifications

• BS degree information technology, computer science, or a related field, and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or master's with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Active Secret Clearance or higher required.
• Full understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Hands-on experience developing software solutions using JAVA and/or the .NET environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure SQL Database, Azure DevOps, and Azure Active Directory.
• Proficiency in SQL for database design, querying, and optimization.
• Experience with SQL Server, including performance tuning, indexing, and stored procedures.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate).
• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 services and integration.
• Ability to understand and design technical solutions
• Working knowledge of existing systems and solutions within federal government departments and agencies.
• Ability to develop project plans and propose project goals, objectives, and tasks to achieve on-time delivery of customer products.
• Experience developing test cases/scenarios, ensuring consistency in project plans and updates, and conduct testing modules as these are developed.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale software implementation projects.
• Demonstrated passion and ability for software development, coding, and teaching of technology.
• Demonstrated experience using data-visualization software such as Tableau, MS PowerBI, or equivalent tool.
• Passion and enthusiasm for keeping up with the latest software and technology tools and trends.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Previous project management experience is advantageous.

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) program with matching
• 3 weeks paid time off
• paid federal holidays
• employee referral bonuses
• paid maternity/paternity leave