Overview DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an experienced
Director, Enterprise Architecture & Engineering to serve as a senior technical leader, Solution Architect, subject matter expert, and strategic advisor supporting DecisionPoint's Federal technology portfolio, special programs, corporate technical capabilities, and growth initiatives.
This position is designed to provide DecisionPoint with a highly experienced technical leader who can be deployed where their expertise creates the greatest value. The Director will lead special technical programs and strategic initiatives, provide direct technical leadership and delivery support on Federal contracts, advise program and corporate leadership on complex technology challenges, and serve as a senior Solution Architect supporting DecisionPoint's growth and capture organization.
A significant component of this position will be supporting DecisionPoint's growth and solution development activities. The Director will help translate Federal customer requirements and mission challenges into differentiated, technically sound, and executable solutions. The Director will participate throughout the business development lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, capture, solutioning, technical writing, proposal development, technical reviews, oral presentations, customer engagements, and post-award transition.
The Director will also help strengthen DecisionPoint's corporate technical capabilities by developing reusable solution architectures, technical approaches, reference architectures, white papers, technology roadmaps, solution briefs, and thought leadership. The individual will bring lessons learned from program delivery into Growth while helping ensure solutions developed during capture can be successfully implemented following award.
Depending on organizational priorities, the Director may serve as the technical lead, chief architect, chief engineer, or senior technical advisor for a major program; provide advisory support to existing programs; lead enterprise architecture or engineering initiatives; evaluate and resolve complex technical challenges; support modernization and transformation efforts; or contribute technical expertise to strategic pursuits.
The Director will bring broad expertise across enterprise architecture, systems engineering, cloud computing, cybersecurity, Zero Trust, infrastructure, networks, automation, DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), and emerging technologies. The individual will help DecisionPoint develop secure, scalable, resilient, and mission-focused solutions while translating complex technical requirements into executable strategies and measurable mission outcomes.
The successful candidate will be capable of operating at both the strategic and hands-on technical levels, communicating effectively with executives and technical teams, and moving between corporate initiatives, customer delivery, technical advisory assignments, and growth activities as DecisionPoint's priorities evolve.
This is a hybrid position, with in-person meetings at DecisionPoint offices in Reston, Virginia, and Arlington, Virginia, as required. Upon future contract award and assignment to a program, travel will be required based on program and customer needs.
Duties & Responsibilities Areas of Responsibility: - Strategic Initiatives, Technical Projects, and Special Projects: Lead high-priority technical initiatives, modernization efforts, architecture assessments, technology evaluations, and other special assignments identified by DecisionPoint executive leadership.
- Program and Contract Delivery: Provide direct technical leadership on Federal programs and contracts, including serving as a lead architect, chief engineer, technical director, senior subject matter expert, or similar technical leadership role based on program needs.
- Enterprise Technical Advisory Support: Advise Program Managers, technical leaders, solution teams, and executives on architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, modernization, technology strategy, technical performance, and complex technology challenges.
- Solution Architecture and Growth: Serve as a senior Solution Architect supporting strategic Federal pursuits and apply extensive Federal technology experience to capture, solutioning, technical strategy, proposals, oral presentations, customer engagements, and transition planning.
- Technical Writing and Thought Leadership: Develop high-quality technical proposal content, architecture narratives, white papers, solution briefs, technical strategies, roadmaps, and reusable corporate intellectual capital that strengthen DecisionPoint's technical capabilities and competitive positioning.
Duties and Responsibilities:Special Technical Programs and Strategic Initiatives - Lead special technical programs and high-priority technology initiatives assigned by DecisionPoint executive leadership.
- Serve as a senior technical subject matter expert who can be deployed to address complex architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, network, application, data, and modernization challenges.
- Lead enterprise architecture assessments, engineering studies, technology evaluations, alternatives analyses, and modernization planning efforts.
- Develop enterprise technology strategies, architecture roadmaps, modernization plans, and recommendations aligned with customer mission requirements and organizational objectives.
- Assess emerging technologies and determine their applicability, maturity, risk, integration requirements, and potential mission or business value.
- Lead strategic initiatives involving cloud transformation, Zero Trust, cybersecurity modernization, AI/ML, automation, DevSecOps, data modernization, infrastructure transformation, and other emerging technologies.
- Develop recommendations that balance innovation, cybersecurity, performance, interoperability, cost, resilience, and operational sustainability.
- Support technical recovery, remediation, or transformation efforts for programs experiencing complex engineering, architecture, performance, integration, or technology challenges.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives requiring coordination among engineering teams, program leadership, corporate functions, technology partners, and executive leadership.
Program and Contract Delivery - Serve in direct technical leadership roles on DecisionPoint Federal programs when required by organizational, program, or customer needs.
- Serve as a lead architect, chief engineer, technical director, senior systems engineer, or subject matter expert based on the requirements of specific programs and assignments.
- Design and oversee enterprise architectures spanning cloud, cybersecurity, networks, infrastructure, applications, data, systems integration, and related technology domains.
- Lead systems engineering and technical integration activities across multidisciplinary teams and complex enterprise environments.
- Design and develop solutions to complex application, infrastructure, system administration, networking, cybersecurity, cloud, and integration challenges.
- Develop high-level and detailed technical designs, architecture documentation, technology roadmaps, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), engineering recommendations, and other technical artifacts.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical planning sessions, engineering reviews, design discussions, and modernization strategy development.
- Perform or oversee engineering trade studies, root cause analyses, technical assessments, alternatives analyses, and technology evaluations.
- Provide technical oversight for software development, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, automation, DevSecOps, systems integration, and lifecycle management initiatives.
- Collaborate with Program Managers, engineering teams, cybersecurity personnel, software teams, infrastructure teams, corporate leadership, customers, and industry partners to successfully deliver enterprise technology solutions.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level technical briefings, architecture recommendations, modernization strategies, and decision-support materials.
- Support program transitions and new program startups by establishing technical governance, validating architectures, identifying technology risks, and developing technical roadmaps and implementation priorities.
- Travel to customer, program, partner, and other locations as required to support future contract assignments, technical delivery, transitions, customer engagement, and other business requirements.
Enterprise Technical Advisory - Serve as a senior technical advisor to DecisionPoint executives, Program Managers, technical leaders, and delivery teams.
- Provide independent technical assessments and recommendations for programs requiring specialized expertise or additional senior technical leadership.
- Advise programs on enterprise architecture, systems engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, Zero Trust, infrastructure, networks, DevSecOps, automation, AI/ML, data, and emerging technology considerations.
- Review proposed architectures and technical solutions for scalability, interoperability, security, resilience, performance, maintainability, cost effectiveness, and mission alignment.
- Help programs identify technical risks, architecture gaps, integration challenges, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and potential improvements.
- Support resolution of complex technical problems by conducting root cause analysis, evaluating alternatives, and developing actionable engineering recommendations.
- Advise program leadership on technology investment priorities, modernization sequencing, architecture decisions, and lifecycle considerations.
- Help establish reusable engineering standards, architecture practices, technical review processes, reference architectures, solution patterns, and technology guidance across DecisionPoint.
- Provide technical guidance during significant program decisions, modernization initiatives, technology selections, and architectural changes.
- Mentor architects, engineers, technical leads, and other technical personnel, helping strengthen DecisionPoint's internal technical leadership capabilities.
- Promote knowledge sharing and reuse of successful technical approaches, architectures, lessons learned, and engineering practices across the company's portfolio.
Solution Architecture and Growth - Serve as a technical subject matter expert for DecisionPoint's Growth organization, supporting strategic Federal pursuits from early opportunity identification and capture through proposal submission, oral presentations, award, transition, and execution.
- Participate in and lead technical solutioning sessions, working with Capture Managers, Proposal Managers, operational leaders, technical SMEs, technology partners, and executive leadership to translate customer mission requirements into differentiated and executable solutions.
- Analyze Requests for Information, Requests for Proposals, Requests for Quotations, Performance Work Statements, Statements of Work, and other acquisition materials to identify technical requirements, dependencies, risks, opportunities, staffing implications, and solution requirements.
- Develop end-to-end solution architectures addressing enterprise modernization, cloud and hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, Zero Trust, infrastructure, networking, application modernization, DevSecOps, automation, AI/ML, data, and emerging technologies.
- Develop technical concepts and solution frameworks that integrate people, processes, technologies, tools, governance, security, service delivery, and performance management into cohesive approaches.
- Serve as a technical strategist during capture, helping identify customer technology challenges, mission priorities, solution gaps, technical discriminators, risks, and opportunities for innovation.
- Develop technical strategies and approaches that clearly articulate how proposed technologies and methodologies will improve mission performance, security, resilience, efficiency, scalability, and customer outcomes.
- Lead technical solution reviews and challenge sessions to ensure proposed approaches are technically sound, compliant, differentiated, scalable, secure, cost conscious, and executable.
- Evaluate proposed solutions for technical feasibility, interoperability, cybersecurity, performance, maintainability, operational sustainability, implementation complexity, and technical risk.
- Evaluate potential technology partners, vendors, platforms, products, and capabilities and recommend approaches that strengthen DecisionPoint's proposed solutions.
- Participate in customer meetings, technical exchanges, industry engagements, demonstrations, oral presentations, solution reviews, and other pre-award activities as a senior DecisionPoint technical representative.
- Support post-award transition by converting proposed architectures and technical approaches into executable implementation plans, engineering roadmaps, governance structures, and delivery models.
- Develop reusable solution architectures, technical frameworks, reference architectures, engineering approaches, and technical differentiators that can be leveraged across DecisionPoint's Federal pipeline.
- Bring lessons learned and technical insights from program delivery back into DecisionPoint's capture and solution development processes.
Technical Writing and Thought Leadership: - Serve as a senior technical writer and contributor for strategic proposals, Requests for Information, white papers, capability statements, technical briefings, presentations, solution documents, and other customer-facing materials.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling, and technically accurate content for Government executives, technical evaluators, acquisition professionals, and mission stakeholders.
- Author and contribute to technical proposal sections addressing solution architecture, systems engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, Zero Trust, infrastructure modernization, DevSecOps, automation, AI/ML, enterprise integration, and emerging technologies.
- Develop architecture narratives, implementation approaches, technical strategies, technology roadmaps, solution concepts, and supporting proposal content that clearly explain how DecisionPoint will address customer requirements and mission challenges.
- Work with Proposal Managers, Capture Managers, writers, and technical SMEs to transform technical concepts and solutioning discussions into cohesive, persuasive proposal narratives.
- Develop concepts and supporting content for technical graphics, architecture diagrams, workflows, roadmaps, and other visual elements used to communicate complex solutions.
- Review technical content developed by SMEs, technology partners, and subcontractors for technical accuracy, consistency, completeness, feasibility, and alignment with the overall solution.
- Participate in proposal color team reviews, technical reviews, solution reviews, and compliance reviews, identifying technical gaps, weaknesses, inconsistencies, risks, and opportunities to strengthen DecisionPoint's responses.
- Ensure technical narratives clearly communicate DecisionPoint's discriminators, innovations, technical benefits, implementation approach, and expected mission outcomes.
- Develop white papers, technical point-of-view materials, solution briefs, technology assessments, presentations, and other thought leadership that strengthen DecisionPoint's market positioning and customer engagement.
- Translate successful technical approaches and lessons learned from existing programs into reusable corporate capabilities, proof points, technical methodologies, solution patterns, and proposal content.
- Maintain awareness of Federal technology priorities, Department of Defense modernization initiatives, emerging technologies, industry trends, and evolving customer requirements to help inform DecisionPoint's technical strategy.
- Help develop and maintain a library of reusable technical content, reference architectures, solution components, technical approaches, and other intellectual capital that can accelerate and improve future solution development.
Qualifications Education: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline required.
- Advanced degree in information technology, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, technology management, or a related discipline preferred.
Experience: - Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise information technology, architecture, systems engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or related technical disciplines, including significant senior technical leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience serving as an enterprise architect, Solution Architect, systems engineering leader, technical director, senior technical advisor, or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, solution architectures, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, modernization plans, engineering solutions, and technical recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and complex enterprise technology initiatives.
- Experience architecting and delivering solutions involving cloud computing, enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, networks, virtualization, systems integration, automation, and related enterprise technologies.
- Experience supporting digital modernization and transformation initiatives within complex Federal environments.
- Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity architecture, Zero Trust principles, risk management, and secure enterprise solution design.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating new capabilities into practical mission and business solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct technical assessments, engineering trade studies, alternatives analyses, root cause analyses, and architecture reviews.
- Experience developing and presenting complex technical recommendations to senior Government, corporate, and technical leadership.
- Demonstrated experience supporting Federal business development, capture, technical solutioning, proposal development, or strategic growth activities.
- Experience translating Government requirements into integrated technical solutions and supporting those solutions throughout the capture and proposal lifecycle.
- Experience developing or contributing to technical proposals, white papers, technical briefings, solution documentation, architecture narratives, and other customer-facing technical materials.
- Experience supporting Department of War, national security, civilian Federal, or other complex Government technology environments preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to move effectively between strategic advisory, solution architecture, engineering, program delivery, technical writing, and growth responsibilities based on organizational priorities.
Certifications: - Relevant professional certifications in enterprise architecture, systems engineering, cybersecurity, cloud computing, program management, IT service management, or related technical disciplines are highly desirable.
- Advanced certifications in areas such as cybersecurity architecture, cloud security, cloud platforms, governance, risk management, Zero Trust, and enterprise technology are preferred.
Skills: - Exceptional enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and solution architecture expertise.
- Strong technical leadership and engineering decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to operate as a strategic technical advisor, Solution Architect, and hands-on technical leader.
- Strong Federal capture, solutioning, and technical proposal development capabilities.
- Excellent technical writing skills with the ability to develop compelling, accurate, and understandable technical narratives.
- Ability to rapidly assess complex technical and mission environments and develop actionable solutions.
- Excellent executive-level communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable mission, operational, financial, and business impacts.
- Strong architecture, modernization strategy, and technology roadmapping capabilities.
- Strong analytical, systems thinking, integration, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead and influence multidisciplinary engineering and solutioning teams across organizational boundaries.
- Strong Federal customer and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to balance innovation and emerging technology adoption with cybersecurity, operational stability, cost, and mission requirements.
- Ability to mentor and develop architects, engineers, technical leads, and other SMEs.
- Strong collaboration skills across technical, program management, Growth, Capture, Proposal, and executive organizations.
- Ability to develop reusable technical approaches and intellectual capital that strengthen corporate capabilities and future pursuits.
- Commitment to technical excellence, innovation, quality, accountability, and mission success.
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