Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect will be located in the McLean, VA corporate office.

• Provide early capture support to understand customer requirements, shape acquisition strategy, and influence technical requirements through white papers, solution artifacts, and customer-aligned recommendations.
• Develop the integrated solution, including technical approach, management approach, transition strategy, staffing mix, risks, mitigations, and basis of estimate/bill of materials inputs.
• Collaborate with domain experts, program teams, pricing, capture, and proposal leads to design solutions that are compliant, compelling, executable, and aligned with customer architectural direction and evaluation criteria.
• Develop and maintain solution artifacts used throughout the capture and proposal lifecycle, including solution narratives, diagrams, staffing concepts, labor category inputs, demonstration plans, and cost/capability tradeoff recommendations.
• Coordinate and co-lead Blue Team reviews, solution iteration workshops, and color review activities to ensure the solution story remains consistent across volumes and proposal assignments.
• Lead and coordinate the developing, reviewing, and delivering assigned proposal artifacts while ensuring completeness, quality, compliance, and alignment with capture and proposal schedules.
• Support program growth by working with delivery teams to identify improvements, requirements, and technical discriminators needed to strengthen the proposed solution.
• Support program growth by working with delivery teams to identify improvements, innovations, and technical solutions that enhance existing contracts and inform future capture strategy.

• 8 years of experience in IT, cybersecurity, cloud, technical services, or a related technical discipline.
• 4 years of experience as a Solution Architect supporting capture, proposal development, or technical solutioning.
• Possess a certification in a relevant technical, management, cybersecurity, cloud, or IT service management discipline.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of enterprise technology, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, and high-level architecture concepts.
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry best practices in IT, cybersecurity, project management, Agile, Dev Ops, and IT service delivery.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive, customer, capture, proposal, technical, and pricing stakeholders.
• Apply strong analytical, problem-solving, and tradeoff analysis skills to develop compliant and executable solutions.
• Lead cross-functional technical teams, solution teams, projects, or proposal work streams in deadline-driven environments.
• Work effectively under pressure, manage competing priorities, and meet tight capture and proposal deadlines.

• Demonstrated success leading solution architecture for major federal, defense, or national security contract proposals.
• Experience developing solutions that directly contributed to contract awards or measurable capture outcomes.
• Advanced certifications in relevant technical domains such as AWS, Azure, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, networking, or cloud architecture.
• Management or delivery certifications such as PMP, ITIL, Agile, Scrum, or other IT service delivery credentials.
• Experience supporting defense industry, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or other federal government customers.
• Knowledge of ITIL, Dev Ops, Agile, and other delivery frameworks used to design scalable and executable technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of network, systems, cloud, security, and enterprise architecture principles and protocols.
• Experience applying…