Solution Architect SME

Solution Architect SME

Apply your expertise to advance the mission and optimize our business strategy as a Solution Architect SME at GDIT.

Here, you'll support solving some of our clients' biggest challenges and help us grow the business.

As a Solution Architect SME, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a technically versatile problem-solver joining our team — someone who can bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution, and guide enterprise technology initiatives from concept through deployment.

• Lead solution design for enterprise technology replacement, modernization, and consolidation initiatives spanning identity, cloud infrastructure, end-user computing, networking, and endpoint management.
• Serve as the solution lead throughout the project lifecycle -- defining integration requirements and architectural guardrails that engineering teams and vendors are accountable for delivering against.
• Act as a translator between business and technical teams, converting stakeholder requirements into actionable technical direction and reframing technical constraints into terms that drive decisions.
• Work closely with project managers to define technical scope, surface risks early, review project documentation for technical accuracy, and ensure architecture deliverables align with project milestones.
• Represent the solution at Architecture Review Board (ARB), Operational Readiness Review (ORR), and other governance gate reviews -- synthesizing engineering and vendor inputs into a cohesive, validated solution position.
• Provide technical inputs to the communications team and project managers, ensuring stakeholder-facing materials accurately reflect the solution design and current project status.
• Develop and maintain internal technical documentation -- including design documents, runbooks, and decision logs -- that serves as the authoritative source of record across all project stakeholders.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. Equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
• Required Experience: 15+ years in enterprise IT, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering. Demonstrated experience leading solution design for platform migrations or technology replacements, and supporting formal governance processes such as ARB, CAB, or PMO gate reviews.
• Required Skills: Broad working knowledge across enterprise IT domains including identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, networking, and endpoint management; familiarity with commercial vs. FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments and how authorization levels affect solution design; ability to produce and validate architectural diagrams at logical, physical, and integration layers; strong written communication skills with the ability to produce accurate, audience-appropriate documentation.
• Required
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  Demonstrated experience working across diverse organizational roles -- including project managers, business stakeholders, and technical engineering staff -- with the ability to adjust communication style and level of detail to suit each audience.
• Preferred
  
  Skills:
  
  Relevant professional certifications in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, identity platforms, or related technical disciplines (e.g., Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, TOGAF, or equivalent).
• Location: Hybrid to Falls Church or Herndon VA.

The likely salary range for this position is $187,179 - $216,200.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees are told they value most.

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