Principal Mission Solution Architect

Job Title:

Principal Mission Solution Architect Job Category:
Engineering Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 25%
Type of Travel:
Local Anticipated Posting End: 3/1/2027

The Opportunity:

As a Principal Mission Solution Architect supporting CACI’s Mission & Engineering Support (M&ES) portfolio, you will lead compelling, executable, and scorable solutions for CACI’s largest, most complex, and strategically important DoD, Intelligence Community, and interagency opportunities. You will translate ambiguous customer missions and acquisition requirements into a clear solution and proposal narrative. This Executive role is a recognized technical leader and trusted advisor.

You will shape short- to mid-term solution strategies, influence business decisions, lead cross functional teams without direct reporting relationships, brief senior leadership, and mentor other Solution Architects. This is a mission-focused architecture role, not a generic enterprise IT position. The ideal candidate brings depth across multiple mission areas listed in the qualifications section. Responsibilities:

Lead technical solution development for the largest and most complex pursuits, from early customer shaping through proposal, oral presentation, award, and transition. Recommend operational plans, solution strategies, technical standards, and reusable patterns that strengthen M&ES capabilities, improve solution quality, and support business growth over a 1–2 year horizon.

Work with LOB leaders, Capture, BD, program teams, SMEs, and mission experts to identify customer priorities, operational gaps, critical issues, stated or implied requirements, and discriminators.

Translate mission needs into solution concepts, CONOPS, mission workflows, system architectures, staffing models, transition approaches, risk mitigations, and measurable outcomes.

Shape solutions across M&ES capability areas, including lifecycle sustainment; systems engineering and software modernization; operations, planning, training, and readiness; intelligence analysis and operations; and UXS/C-UXS employment and integration.

Integrate people, process, technology, data, cyber, training, sustainment, and operations into a coherent solution; use SMEs for depth while retaining ownership of the integrated approach.

Lead development of scorable strengths, discriminators, proof points, storyboards, annotated graphics, white papers, technical volume outlines, and persuasive technical narratives.

Serve as technical volume lead or senior technical authority, including writing, rewriting, one-voicing, page-count management, solution alignment, and defense through gate, color-team, and executive reviews.

Brief senior leaders on novel or high-impact solutions, alternatives, risks, and recommendations; influence decisions on matters of strategic importance to the organization.

Establish and improve solution-development processes, technical patterns, reusable artifacts, and lessons learned; help define standards and methods used by the SA community.

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent mission and technical experience; advanced degree preferred.

Minimum 12 years of relevant experience supporting DoD, IC, interagency, or federal national-security missions.

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Recognized expertise or mastery across multiple technical or mission areas (intelligence analysis or operations; systems or mission engineering; offensive or defensive cyber and cyber mission operations; mission operations support; UXS/C-UXS, ISR platforms, autonomy, or emerging mission systems), combined with sound business acumen and the…