Solutions Architect SME - Intelligence & Homeland Security

Job Profile Summary

Join GDIT’s Intelligence and Homeland Security CTO organization and help drive the technical solutions needed to win our most complex and strategic deals. Candidate will analyze RFI and RFP requirements and develop responsive solutions including staffing and other costs, review solutions developed by others, present solutions to internal and external clients, develop and explain use‑cases and work closely with capture and proposal teams.

Candidate will develop logical and physical architectures and designs, author proposal materials including writing proposal sections and diagrams, and review the work of others in this area.

Responsible for providing business and technical architectural guidance to development teams, business groups, and customers for existing and new products and services. The solutions architect develops marketing strategies, business concepts, and technical capabilities that maximize customer value while differentiating GDIT from its competition in the marketplace. The solutions architect is responsible for defining, designing, and implementing the full lifecycle of products and services.

• Supports business by developing technical and business solutions.
• Identify solutions based on business and technical criteria, analyze alternatives based on trade space, and implement designs.
• Research current and emerging technologies and process methodologies and propose changes and tailoring where needed.
• Assess the system and business process architectures currently in place and work with staff to recommend improvements.
• Ensure technical architecture teams deliver efficient and effective system solutions to support business goals and objectives.
• Develop, enhance and maintain established service design procedures and processes by applying process frameworks and methodologies.
• Prepare and present test plans, technical presentations, and analyst briefings.
• Identify customer requirements, analyze alternatives, and conduct product recommendations related to software, platform, and network configurations.
• Provide updates to stakeholders on project cost, schedule, and quality in comparison to stakeholder objectives.
• Provide expert guidance and leadership to less‑experienced colleagues.
• May serve as a task or project leader (not a people manager).
• Recognized as an industry leader in a specific technology.

• 15+ years of experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance;
  Poly clearance strongly preferred.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, a similar discipline, or equivalent experience.

Hybrid work location between the GDIT facility in Herndon, VA and remote (home office).

Occasional evening and weekend work to meet deadlines.

Sitting for extended periods of time in a typical office setting.

Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard or mouse, and to handle other computer components.