Solution Architect

Overview

Solution Architect

Hybrid | Washington D.C. | 3 Days a Week Onsite

Active TS/SCI Clearance Required

 

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

 

Responsibilities

Our client is looking looking for a Solutions Architect to join their team!

• Work with the technical requirements team (TRT) to assess new customer requests, identify existing capabilities that may meet customer needs, and/or identify additional technology to meet customer needs that balances cost and performance
• Work with the TRT to build alternative courses of action, including solution architectures, that alternately balance customer requirements with cost and timeline to implement
• Assess existing enterprise solutions for alignment with Enterprise standards and best practices and make modification recommendations for better alignment with said standards
• Work with product teams to identify technology to meet their challenges during development, emphasizing reuse of existing capabilities, and alignment with Enterprise standards and best practices
• Build materials that map out the client's technical ecosystem in a digestible format, while including key information about tech stack, interconnectivity, Mission owners, Product Teams, etc.
• Communicate functional and technical aspects, risks, challenges, and selling point for the solutions
• Develop an understanding of existing technologies and infrastructures to actively identify areas for improvements when developing solutions
• Ensure all solution documentation is comprehensive and accurate

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years' practical experience OR Associates degree plus 6 years' practical experience OR Master's degree plus 2 years' practical experience OR High School/GED plus 8 years' practical experience is required
• Experience building products/solutions/assets using Microsoft and/or cloud technologies
• Comprehension of various cloud and Microsoft technologies
• Significant experience architecting systems OR working in Government-owned secure networks (e.g., NIPR, SIPR, A-LAN, C-LAN/JWICS)
• Familiarity with various coding languages, operating systems, and databases
• Experience identifying and researching COTS products
• Experience collaborating with business, technical, and security stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze business problems, and design effective solutions

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years' practical experience OR Associates degree plus 6 years' practical experience OR Master's degree plus 2 years' practical experience OR High School/GED plus 8 years' practical experience is required

Preferred Requirements

• 2 years’ experience serving in a Strategic Communications role
• AWS Certified Solution Architect certificate
• 2 years' experience architecting OR building and maintaining systems
• 1 years' experience architecting systems OR working in Government-owned secure networks (e.g., NIPR, SIPR, A-LAN, C-LAN)
• Experience architecting, implementing, operating Microsoft Power Platform solutions
• Experience working with AWS Un-class and/or Top-Secret Cloud (i.e., C2S/C2E)
• Experience working in an agile team environment
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates) and platforms
• Experience architecting OR building and maintaining applications on AWS platforms
• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active TS/SCI clearance is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.

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