Architect - End to End

Solutions Architect – End to End

Job Location:

DC Metro Area Compensation: $100/hr - $110/hr OR $200,000 salary Eligibility/Clearance:
Secret Clearance Required. This opportunity supports a government contract

Job Description:

We are seeking an End-to-End Solution Architect with a strong engineering background, customer-facing communication skills, and a history of experience supporting large-scale systems design and implementations. This role serves as the architectural leader for a large-scale system modernization effort for one of our Federal Civilian customers and will involve guiding the effort to develop, maintain, and implement a future-state solution architecture and roadmap to meet customer mission and operational objectives and needs.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

- Coordinate with customers, stakeholders, program functions, and technical teams on architecture design and implementation
- Understand needs and capability gaps and develop associated architectural vision and solution strategies.

- Develop and maintain the target architecture and technology roadmap.

- Align multiple efforts and functions to effectively integrate systems, processes, and plans to meet evolving needs.

- Design and own end-to-end solution architecture that meets customer mission and operational objectives, needs, and requirements.

- Identify secure, robust, flexible, and efficient solutions.

- Define a concept of operations and the procedures and tools required to enable delivery of associated products and services.

- Integrate system architecture considerations and support activities across system lifecycle.

- Define system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, and data flows.

- Guide and validate architecture decisions.

- Lead identification and evaluation of solution options through structured analysis of alternatives methods.

- Provide input to program risk management activities.

- Incorporate human factors, human-system-integration, and organizational change considerations into target architecture implementation planning.

- Govern architecture compliance across the project and change management processes
- Define architecture frameworks, guidance, and best practices to be used.  - Establish and maintain an architecture governance framework, including an architecture review process.

- Provide architectural review of engineering deliverables and packages.

- Create and maintain authoritative architecture deliverables that clearly communicate architectures and implementations plans for various audiences and levels of abstraction.

- Present solutions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders to foster shared understanding and obtain buy-in.

- Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support engineering, operations, and other needs
- Ensure all documentation is accurate, current, and accessible to engineering and operations teams

Requirements:

- Active Secret clearance or higher - 12+ years of professional experience with five years or more of Architect experience
- Strong customer and stakeholder engagement skills including demonstrated success in facilitating solution architecture design and planning.

- Experience partnering directly with PMO/Program Leadership to integrate architecture into budget planning, contract strategy, and vendor management approaches.

- Experience conducting prototype or pilot efforts to validate solution approaches prior to enterprise rollout.

- Demonstrated ability to architect solutions that account for sustainment, O&M cost optimization, and lifecycle cost estimation.

- Demonstrated success resolving architectural disputes across diverse stakeholder groups using structured decision frameworks (e.g., trade studies).

- Strong written and oral communication and leadership skills with demonstrated success in leading technical leadership and teams.

- Experience collaborating with non-technical customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams including UX Design, Product Management, and other Engineering and Operations functions to design and deliver high-quality solutions.

- Experience mentoring engineering teams on architectural patterns,…