Technical Solution Architect

About

ECS is seeking a Technical Solution Architect to work in our Arlington, VA office.

ECS is looking for a Technical Solution Architect is a team leader who is passionate about automation, enterprise transformation, and continuously driving innovation. Strong candidates will have a desire to drive strategic initiatives that take advantage of modern approaches to technology, business delivery, and the use of data.

The Technical Solution Architect is responsible for supporting teams building capabilities that use hybrid cloud technologies, data, and various approaches to software development. They will play a strategic role in painting a vision while merging technical, business, and customer needs into achievable objectives and driving the completion of those objectives. As an expert in delivering technical projects, the Technical Solution Architect will identify challenges and improvements of all sorts, then help a multifunctional team solution and deliver the improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought and design leadership to a small team
• Lead and guide team to technical solution development and delivery
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms
• Lead solution architecting sessions evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and cost
• Apply advanced organizational and technical knowledge in developing solutions or problem solving where complexity, innovation and technical expertise are required
• Using data to enable deeper insights into organization and solutions
• Evolve organizations that support full lifecycle solution delivery and operations

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain a TS Clearance
• Senior level architect with 10+ years of planning, architecting, and engineering enterprise class systems and services
• In-depth knowledge and hands‑on experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure offerings
• Understanding of source code management solutions and how to apply them
• Must have proven success in consulting to executive level clients
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms using innovative solutions
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and leadership with strong relationship management
• Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Lifecycle
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms / functional areas using innovative technology solutions
• Demonstrated customer focus
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Communicates clearly and effectively evaluates information to make decisions
• Anticipates risks and obstacles and develops plans for mitigation
• Creates actionable strategies and operational plans
• Champions and drives their own, and other peoples' initiatives
• Confronts difficult problems in a positive and creative way
• Balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly