Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a senior technical representative for federal clients, partnering teams, and cloud provider field groups.

• Stay well-versed in FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO, and federal Zero Trust standards.

• Establish and sustain relationships with AWS, Microsoft, and Google public sector partner organizations.

• Lead or contribute to the technical cloud architecture sections of RFP, RFI, RFQ, and sources-sought submissions.

• Create technical volumes, architecture diagrams, transition plans, and management approach sections.

• Convert agency requirements into robust technical solutions with distinct differentiators.

• Generate basis-of-estimate inputs, level-of-effort assumptions, and cloud cost models.

• Engage in Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews, integrating feedback effectively.

• Assist in oral presentations and technical Q&A sessions with agency evaluators.

• Develop reusable reference architectures, technical case studies, solution modules, and past-performance materials.

• Define, construct, and showcase working proofs of concept and pilots in federal cloud environments.

• Implement infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and data or AI/ML pipelines.

• Facilitate technical discovery sessions and whiteboard workshops with client architects and agency leaders.

• Assess prototypes for security, data protection, cost efficiency, and operational viability.

• Document POC results for future proposals or task orders.

• Transition successful prototypes to delivery teams, providing architecture documentation, runbooks, and tidy IaC repositories.

• Manage solutions comprehensively as a senior individual contributor without direct reports.

• Travel around 10%, including visits to Falls Church, Virginia, as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 15 years of experience in cloud architecture, engineering, or technical presales.

• At least 3 years of experience supporting federal government clients or federal contracts.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, particularly in federal regions.

• Direct involvement in contributing technical content to federal proposals and familiarity with evaluation factors.

• Practical knowledge of infrastructure as code, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or similar tools.

• Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Working understanding of FedRAMP and the ATO process.

• Strong technical writing skills.

• Effective communication skills and the ability to engage with all levels of staff, business owners, and clients.

• Work visa sponsorship is not available.

• Preferred: professional-level cloud certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

• Preferred: security certification such as CISSP, CCSP, or similar.

• Preferred: experience with Google Cloud, especially Assured Workloads or other federal-eligible configurations.

• Preferred: hands-on experience in designing or prototyping modern data, AI/ML, or Generative AI solutions.

• Preferred: familiarity with federal contract vehicles and task-order competitions.

• Preferred: knowledge of Shipley or a comparable capture and proposal methodology.

• Preferred: previous experience at a systems integrator or cloud provider within the public sector.

• Preferred: strong backend skills in Node/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, or C#, and REST APIs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental plan options available.

• Vision plan options available.

• 401(k) plan with company match.

• Full flex work weeks where applicable.

• Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.

• Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year.

• Additional 10 paid holidays each year.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance.

• Critical illness insurance.

• Business travel and accident insurance.

• AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities.

• Internal mobility team dedicated to career goals.

• Wellness packages provided.

• Competitive compensation.

• Award-winning culture of innovation.

• Military-friendly workplace.