Senior Solutions Architect

Overview

Location: Falls Church, VA

Terms: Contract to Hire

Job Summary:

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. Advise and oversee 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. Provide analysis of security protection technologies as necessary. Identify potential risks and issues related to the solution and take appropriate steps to mitigate them.

• 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 a 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 Dev Sec Ops  practices, Agile methodologies, and associated tool chains
• 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 Service Now and Git/Git Lab (Preferred) or equivalent modern Dev Ops tooling
• 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
• Demonstrable experience solutioning and driving modernization of legacy applications and architecture end to end in an Azure environment

Pay Range: $80-$90/hr W2

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