Solution Architect

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Solution Architect designing Azure, M365, and AI-enabled federal IT solutions for a veteran-owned services provider. Owning technical proposals from capture through evaluation and delivery transition.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop comprehensive technical architecture, design, and blueprints for Federal IT solutions in technical proposals
  • Own the technical solution across the capture lifecycle from pre-RFP engagement through oral evaluations
  • Lead technical discovery during industry days, one-on-one sessions, site visits, and draft solicitation reviews
  • Collaborate with Capture Managers, Business Development Managers, Proposal Managers, and Writers
  • Author RFI responses, sources sought responses, capability statements, white papers, and proposal content
  • Identify technical capability gaps and support make-or-team decisions and teaming partner vetting
  • Conceptualize graphics illustrating solution concepts, processes, dependencies, technologies, benefits, and features
  • Architect, design, and present innovative, cost-effective solutions to company leadership, Federal customers, and Federal CIOs
  • Own technical volumes and lead brainstorming sessions, SME interviews, solution research, graphic concepts, and content authoring
  • Author technical approach, technically driven management approach, transition and phase-in approach, and quality control content
  • Define solution scope, goals, alternate solutions, challenges, risks, and level-of-effort/basis-of-effort estimates
  • Build technical bases of estimate, including work decomposition, labor-category mapping, skill mix, staffing ramp, and defensible assumptions
  • Construct rough-order-of-magnitude models for RFI and market research responses
  • Serve as technical presenter or technical bench for oral presentations, challenges, and scenario-based evaluations
  • Answer government technical questions accurately under time pressure
  • Build and maintain a technical reuse library of solution patterns, boilerplate, technical summaries, and graphics
  • Establish implementation capabilities, limitations, performance requirements, and interfaces for end-user solutions
  • Support startup and delivery of won proposals through job interviews, work assignments, and executive briefings

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
  • 10+ years of experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure solutions or software development
  • Demonstrated expertise in Azure and Microsoft 365 implementation, operations, and sustainment
  • Fluency with Microsoft Power Platform
  • Demonstrated experience leading or architecting federal production systems that have achieved and maintained authority to operate
  • Demonstrated expertise in generative and agentic AI, including technical implementation and governance
  • Detailed understanding of federal proposal mechanics
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Prepared to outline specific examples of past success on proposal efforts
  • May be asked to provide a writing sample during the screening process
  • Successful execution of each phase of the proposal development process
  • Ability to take initiative and drive solution development efforts from capture to submission
  • Ability to pass a Government Background Investigation (BI)
  • Industry recognized cloud certification (desired)
  • Industry recognized cybersecurity certification (desired)
  • Experience working in IL5 and IL6 cloud environments (desired)
  • Demonstrated experience architecting for, or delivering in, a federal DevSecOps environment (desired)
  • Prior technical delivery experience on a DoD readiness reporting or military personnel program (desired)

Benefits:

  • Complete benefits package
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Strong company culture that respects work-life balance
  • Open communication
  • Occasional travel and overtime may be required