Solutions Architect, TS/SCI

Qualifications:

• TS-SCI clearance
• Bachelor s degree + 4 years' practical experience OR Associates degree + 6 years' practical experience OR Master's degree + 2 years' practical experience OR High School/GED + 8 years' practical experience.
• Experience building products/solutions/assets using Microsoft and/or cloud technologies.
• Comprehension of various cloud and Microsoft technologies.
• Significant experience architecting systems OR working in Government-owned secure networks (e.g., NIPR, SIPR, A-LAN, C-LAN/JWICS)
• Familiarity with various coding languages, operating systems, and databases
• Experience identifying and researching COTS products
• Experience collaborating with business, technical, and security stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze business problems, and design effective solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years experience serving in a Strategic Communications role
• AWS Certified Solution Architect certificate
• 2 years' experience architecting OR building and maintaining systems.
• 1 years' experience architecting systems OR working in Government-owned secure networks (e.g., NIPR, SIPR, A-LAN, C-LAN).
• Experience architecting, implementing, operating Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
• Experience working with AWS Un-class and/or Top-Secret Cloud (i.e., C2S/C2E).
• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates) and platforms
• Experience architecting OR building and maintaining applications on AWS platforms.
• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle.
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Responsibilities:

• Work with the technical requirements team (TRT) to assess new customer requests, identify existing capabilities that may meet customer needs, and/or identify additional technology to meet customer needs that balances cost and performance.
• Work with the TRT to build alternative courses of action, including solution architectures, that alternately balance customer requirements with cost and timeline to implement.
• Assess existing enterprise solutions for alignment with Enterprise standards and best practices and make modification recommendations for better alignment with said standards.
• Work with product teams to identify technology to meet their challenges during development, emphasizing reuse of existing capabilities, and alignment with Enterprise standards and best practices.
• Build materials that map out the client's technical ecosystem in a digestible format, while including key information about tech stack, interconnectivity, Mission owners, Product Teams, etc.
• Communicate functional and technical aspects, risks, challenges, and selling point for the solutions.
• Develop an understanding of existing technologies and infrastructures to actively identify areas for improvements when developing solutions.
• *Ensure all solution documentation is comprehensive and accurate.

Skills:

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
• System Architecture and Design
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automation
• Technical Documentation
• Written and Verbal Communication
• Confluence and JIRA
• Draw.io or other diagram software
• Database Applications
• Cloud Technologies, preferably AWS
• Problem Solving
• Comfortable with ambiguity