Director, Solutions Architecture - Federal Health

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our organization, please visit us at

We are seeking a Director, Solutions Architecture
- Federal Health to join our team in the Washington, DC Metro area.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on federal technology and solutioning leader who understands the operating realities of health agencies. This person can move comfortably between mission conversations, technical architecture, capture strategy, and delivery execution. They bring enough depth to challenge assumptions, enough judgment to distinguish a proven capability from an aspirational one, and enough credibility to earn trust with government customers, delivery leaders, and partners.

The Director, Solutions Architecture
- Federal Health will lead the development and positioning of enterprise-scale solutions supporting the Federal Health agencies, including CMS, NIH, DHA, VA, and others. The role combines mission knowledge with expertise in cloud modernization, application services, health data interoperability, analytics, artificial intelligence, and program integrity.

This position reports to the Vice President and General Manager, Federal Civilian and Health, and works closely with the Vice President, Enterprise Solutions. The VP, Enterprise Solutions establishes corporate solutioning standards, reference architectures, and accelerator patterns; this Director applies and strengthens those practices within the Federal Health portfolio.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead solution strategy and development for task orders, recompetes, and new-business pursuits supporting CMS, NIH, DHA, VA, and other Federal customers.
• Translate customer mission priorities into practical, differentiated technical approaches that account for implementation realities, security requirements, operational constraints, cost, schedule, and expected outcomes.
• Design end-to-end solution and enterprise architectures for modernization initiatives involving cloud, applications, data, analytics, AI/ML, automation, Dev Sec Ops , and system integration.
• Develop modernization roadmaps for legacy applications, cloud migration, secure digital services, and interoperable data environments across agency, partner, provider, beneficiary, public-facing, and research systems.
• Shape technical approaches that use data, analytics, automation, and AI/ML to improve program integrity, service delivery, public health surveillance, research operations, and decision-making.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, natural language processing, low-code platforms, and robotic process automation, for secure and mission-appropriate use.
• Apply health data interoperability standards and common data models to solution designs supporting claims, clinical, provider, beneficiary, public health, and research data environments.
• Ensure solution architectures align with applicable federal technology, security, privacy, and accessibility requirements, including Zero Trust, FedRAMP, RMF, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA/HITECH, CMS Acceptable Risk Safeguards, MARS-E, and Section 508.
• Partner with Growth, Capture, Delivery, Engineering, Program Management, Account Executives, and Executive Leadership to ensure proposed solutions are technically sound, executable, and tied to customer outcomes.
• Support capture…