Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes.

• Evaluate the completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications of proposed requirements.

• Translate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations.

• Assess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities.

• Identify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities.

• Determine whether existing enterprise capabilities can meet stakeholder requirements.

• Document findings and develop recommendations for addressing identified gaps and deficiencies.

• Develop solution concepts and candidate approaches that address business needs and capability gaps.

• Evaluate alternatives and analyze benefits, risks, dependencies, implementation complexity, operational impacts, and costs.

• Facilitate the analysis of alternatives, trade studies, and decision-support activities.

• Recommend approaches that balance mission value, technical feasibility, organizational readiness, and sustainability.

• Develop decision-ready recommendations supported by objective analysis and documented rationale.

• Communicate benefits, tradeoffs, constraints, risks, assumptions, and implementation considerations.

• Support working groups, review boards, architecture governance processes, and executive decision forums.

• Assist leadership in understanding competing solution approaches prior to resource commitments.

• Aid project and program teams in converting approved solutions into implementation plans.

• Identify dependencies, sequencing considerations, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs.

• Support deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement planning.

• Mitigate implementation risk by identifying technical, organizational, and operational challenges early.

• Serve as a liaison among requirements analysis, enterprise architecture, platform architecture, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

• A minimum of 12 years of experience supporting solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related technology transformation initiatives.

• Experience in analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating them into actionable solution approaches.

• Proven experience in assessing current-state capabilities, identifying gaps, evaluating constraints, and developing recommendations that align business needs with technical realities.

• Experience in developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures across applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operational capabilities.

• Experience in conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, capability assessments, and solution evaluations within complex enterprise settings.

• Experience in evaluating solution alternatives and performing trade studies that consider business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle costs, and long-term sustainability.

• Experience in identifying opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns to meet stakeholder requirements.

• Experience in supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, stakeholder engagement, solution assessments, and decision-support activities across multiple business and technology domains.

• Experience in formulating recommendations based on technical analysis, business considerations, operational impacts, implementation constraints, and strategic objectives.

• Experience in collaborating closely with enterprise architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations organizations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders.

• Experience in developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, solution recommendations, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting engineering and operations, working groups, platform teams, Architecture Review Boards, Technology Review Boards, governance forums, investment reviews, or similar decision-making bodies.

• Preferred: Experience in conducting capability assessments, gap analyses, Analysis of Alternatives, trade studies, modernization assessments, technology evaluations, and business case development.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, cloud migration, service delivery enhancement, platform rationalization, or technology lifecycle management initiatives.

• Preferred: Experience in facilitating stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, architecture reviews, operational assessments, and executive decision-support activities.

• Preferred: Experience in developing business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, solution roadmaps, transition plans, implementation strategies, or modernization plans.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting large-scale, geographically distributed, mission-critical, highly available, or regulated enterprise environments.

• Preferred: Experience in identifying opportunities to improve interoperability, reduce redundancy, enhance service delivery, and optimize technology investments.

• Preferred: Professional certifications in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, systems engineering, project management, IT service management, cloud architecture, or related fields.

• Experience in working across infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, software development, data and analytics, cybersecurity, service management, and systems integration.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, and iterative solution delivery.

• Familiarity with one or more major cloud service providers and associated enterprise services, including both commercial and government cloud environments.

• Familiarity with CI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, and release management practices.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture, modeling, and visualization tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ArchiMate, or comparable platforms.

• Familiarity with performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, and operational analytics capabilities.

• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, capability modeling, business architecture, service architecture, systems engineering, and decision-support methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• AD&D

• STD

• LTD

• Company paid Life Insurance

• 401k with employer contribution

• Paid Time Off

• Pet Insurance