As an Engineering /Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility will be to align people, process, tools, and organizational culture to satisfy customer requirements:
Serve as the primary technical face of the organization to key customers and stakeholders
Proactively ensure customer satisfaction, deeply understand their mission-critical needs and strategic objectives, and drive alignment between customer expectations and the engineering organization’s delivery roadmap to guarantee successful mission outcomes.
Collaborate closely with system and software architects and product teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our system and software development lifecycle
Define document and communicate the overall solution architecture to create alignment between customers, management, and engineering staff
Refine, elaborate, and document customer requirements
Define and document appropriate technologies to satisfy requirements
Develop and maintain architectural best practices
Collaborate with engineering teams to solve technical problems and prioritize issues
Mentor other architects and engineers
Advises and oversees the software testing process to ensure that all NFRs are clearly tested.
Provide general day-to-day leadership of medium to large engineering organizations
Negotiate timelines and manage expectations with stakeholders and engineering teams
Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary.
Identifies potential risks and issues related to the solution and takes appropriate steps to mitigate them
Minimum/General Experience/Requirements:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline (Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts)
Required Experience:
20+ years of related experience
Minimum of 10 years of experience in related technologies with progressively increasing scope of responsibility
Technical Certifications
Leadership Experience:
Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience
Proven strong leadership, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to track and manage multiple deliverables and timelines across product teams and task orders
Core Solution Architecture Capabilities:
Demonstrated ability to independently develop technical roadmaps, architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and supporting visuals to drive alignment and communicate long-term direction
Strong presentation skills with the ability to confidently articulate in-depth technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Hands-on experience leading the end-to-end evaluation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and components for technical fit, security, performance, scalability, and integration within complex environment
Key Technical Experience:
Broad and current knowledge of the technology landscape and emerging computing trends
Prior experience on multiple large-scale technology projects spanning diverse technologies, approaches, and problem domains
Hands-on experience with cloud migration programs
Practical experience implementing DevSecOps practices, Agile methodologies, and associated toolchains
Proficiency in architecture modeling using SysML or UML
Experience designing and implementing microservices and API-first architectures
Working knowledge of NIST cybersecurity frameworks and controls
Platform & Tool Experience:
Recent experience with Microsoft Azure (preferred) or other major cloud providers
Prior hands-on work with ServiceNow and Git/GitLab (Preferred) or equivalent modern DevOps tooling
Specialized Environment Experience:
Recent and verifiable experience designing, deploying, or architecting solutions in DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments, including familiarity with associated security controls, ATO processes, and classified cloud requirements
Demonstratable experience solutioning and driving modernization of legacy applications and architecture end to end in an Azure environment
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