Solution Architect; Computer Systems Architect

Solution Architect (Computer Systems Architect
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Location: Fairfax, VA, Virginia, United States

Requisition Number: 28610

Required Travel: 0 – 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $ – $

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain

Level of

Experience:

Senior

• Approved solution designs with traceability to business objectives, portfolio OKRs, and target states.
• Accelerated delivery via shared components, templates, and fit‑for‑purpose platforms—fewer exceptions and redesigns.
• Reliability, security, and cost improvements with NFRs engineered in from day one (availability, performance, resilience, security).
• Cross‑silo reuse and reduction of duplicate platforms/integrations.

• Lead end‑to‑end designs across UI/UX, enterprise apps, APIs, data platforms, event‑driven systems, cloud landing zones, identity/zero trust, resiliency, and observability.
• Deliver core architecture artifacts: contextual, logical, and physical views; interface contracts; domain and data models; sequence and deployment diagrams; ADRs; NFR catalogs; and runbooks.
• Extend reference architectures and ensure alignment with enterprise guardrails and target states.
• Define standards for containerization, serverless, and distributed compute to maximize scalability, portability, and efficiency.
• Specify API‑first and asynchronous integration patterns that simplify interoperability and reduce system coupling.
• Provide zero‑trust, IAM lifecycle governance, encryption standards, and proactive threat‑modeling guidance.
• Develop enterprise data strategy, unified data fabric patterns, lifecycle governance, and readiness for advanced analytics and AI.
• Design hybrid network solutions, secure interconnects, regional failover, and business‑continuity standards.
• Implement enterprise telemetry, logging, and monitoring frameworks that enable proactive incident management.
• Create architecture policies, templates, and standards to mature operating models and processes.
• Present designs to the Architecture Review Board, manage design stage gates, and partner with funding and risk functions.
• Operate within a hybrid EA model alongside corporate architects and embedded engineering teams.
• Curate architecture methods—NFRs, ADRs, quality attributes—and provide Architecture‑as‑a‑Service to product and platform teams.
• Contribute reference implementations and reusable components.
• Command domain modeling, REST/event‑driven patterns, ETL/ELT, API management, data governance, privacy and security patterns for analytics and AI enablement.
• Embed security and resilience controls, ensuring compliance with NIST frameworks, including 800‑171, and CMMC 2.0.
• Partner with PMO/Product and engineering to sequence work, manage dependencies, and measure value through KPIs and OKRs.
• Support platform and vendor evaluations and investment cases.
• Mentor engineers and junior architects; facilitate design reviews and communities of practice.

• 15 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 13 years with a Master’s, or 10 years with a PhD or Juris Doctorate, or high school diploma and 19 years of experience.
• 5 years in Solution Architecture with production delivery of complex solutions.
• Deep Azure experience and certification; design and delivery of Azure solutions; strong cost management, security baselines, and landing zone expertise.
• Proficiency in software and hardware systems design—SOLID principles; architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman.
• Business acumen to align technical solutions with business goals and articulate impact to executive audiences.
• Project management competence to manage timelines, resources, and scope; effective partnership with PMO and product owners.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills; ability to assess complex requirements and propose feasible solutions.
• Understanding of AI operations and architecture of AI pipelines.
• Proven deployment of enterprise application architectures in Azure or AWS environments.

• Experience and certification in AWS Solutions Architect or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• Certifications:
  
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305), TOGAF, SAFe/Agile, ITIL.
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