Solutions Architect

At AEM, we're on a mission to help organizations unlock the power of their data. We build cutting edge data platforms that power AI and business critical decisions. We're looking for passionate innovators to join our team and help us build better solutions.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be the key technical bridge between our customers' business goals and our world-class engineering teams. You're an exceptional communicator and thrive on understanding a client's objectives and translating them into working systems. You will align client needs with effective solutions and champion secure, scalable, and cost-effective data solutions hosted on Azure and AWS, guiding our customers and delivery teams from the initial workshop to a successful launch.

• Make a tangible impact through strategic client opportunities and grow professionally with dedicated support for your education and development.
• Thrive in a collaborative, team-first culture that genuinely cares for its members, reflected in our communication and generous benefits.
• Enjoy a flexible environment and work can be performed at our Reston, Virginia office or remotely.
• Connect with colleagues from across the country at our annual all-company gathering to build relationships and celebrate our successes.
• Advance your career on a clear path with defined opportunities for growth into senior and principal roles.

• Scrum-Aligned
  
  Collaboration:
  
  We believe in clear goals, user stories, acceptance criteria, and automated testing. We actively participate in planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Team-First Culture: We seek help early and offer help freely. We elevate our standards through design reviews, pair programming, and shared knowledge management.
• Outcome-Driven Delivery: We measure our impact (mission, performance, quality, cycle time), iterate on our processes, and stay focused on delivering customer value.

• Customer Engagement & Solution Design: Lead discovery workshops, clarify business goals, and elicit all functional/non-functional requirements (security, cost, performance) to design and present a clear solution.
• Data Platform Architecture: Design modern lakehouse and data platform topologies on Azure and AWS, defining patterns for ingestion, storage, processing (batch/streaming), and consumption (BI/AI/ML). Contribute to the continual evolution of AEM's solution portfolio.
• Technical & Business Advisory: Advise clients on the best services (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake) to meet their needs. Clearly communicate tradeoffs between cost, complexity, and risk to secure stakeholder alignment.
• Modernization Strategy & Execution: Develop and implement modernization roadmaps that align mission priorities with target architectures and phased delivery plans. Assess legacy systems, prioritize initiatives, identify dependencies and risks, and guide implementation against agreed milestones and measurable outcomes.
• AI-Enabled Solutions & Processes: Use approved AI tools to improve solution design and delivery, and identify, evaluate, and incorporate AI capabilities into new systems and business processes where they provide measurable value. Partner with stakeholders to validate results and establish appropriate data protection, cybersecurity, governance, and human oversight.
• Data Governance & Quality: Establish and champion data strategies and the value of business glossaries, data catalogs, lineage, master data management, and an organization that continually grows to realize the potential value of their data.
• Engineering & Team Enablement: Mentor engineers by improving and explaining our reference architectures, design artifacts, and best-practice patterns. You'll review designs and PRs to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

• 10+ years in data/analytics
  , with at least 5+ years in an architect role leading end-to-end solutions.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree: Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, Applied Math, Industrial Engineering or similar.
• Federal Sector
  
  Experience:
  
  Required experience designing and delivering technology solutions for Federal Civilian agencies or the Department of War, with an understanding of federal mission needs, operating environments, and customer requirements.
• Secure Computing & Cybersecurity: Required experience designing and delivering solutions in secure computing environments and incorporating…