Cloud Solutions Architect

Rapid Cycle Solutions • Springfield, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) seeks a Cloud Solutions Architect to support an air-gapped standalone network delivering enterprise application functions to approximately 3,000 users. The role provides enterprise architecture and engineering expertise to assist the Chief Architect with modernization across the program’s IT stack, including secure phone systems, networks, internet-facing systems, and platform architecture. The position also supports an enterprise-domain ServiceNow platform and requires the ability to independently develop decision-quality architecture products. The role is onsite in Springfield, Virginia, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph and U.S. citizenship.

The architect reviews systems, assesses lifecycle and modernization needs, evaluates technologies and mission-aligned use cases, and develops recommendations and roadmaps. The position produces and maintains enterprise architecture products and decision materials, coordinates with engineering teams and stakeholders, and communicates proposed architecture costs, value, risks, and progress. It also supports the development and maturation of an enterprise architecture practice, including prioritized initiatives, methods, templates, repositories, and performance measures.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Enterprise architecture leadership in a complex, federated, regulated, or mission-oriented IT enterprise.
• Experience establishing or maturing an enterprise architecture practice, preferably from a low-maturity or startup condition.
• Business architecture skills, including capability modeling, value streams, operating models, stakeholder outcomes, and investment framing.
• Experience with technology strategy, portfolio management, lifecycle planning, technical-debt analysis, roadmapping, and modernization.
• Ability to develop architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and exception processes.
• Executive-level writing, briefing, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-influence skills.
• Ability to distinguish strategic enterprise architecture from solution architecture, technical architecture, engineering execution, cybersecurity authority, and operational authority.
• Experience building automation-heavy workflows and front-door experiences in Intelligence Community environments.
• Experience implementing ServiceNow Flow Designer and Integration Hub patterns, including approvals, routing, notifications, and orchestration.
• Experience building and extending ServiceNow catalog items for IT support and service requests, business-requirements intake, or visit and access requests.
• Experience supporting PPM module configuration buildout, including forms, flows, and templates.
• Experience creating reusable subflows such as approval chains, task-pack generation, SLA timers, and escalations.
• Experience with the ServiceNow CAM module in relation to A&A processes, RMF tasks, or evidence requests.
• Experience leading process mapping and future-state design for different process types.
• Ability to write user stories and document user acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing UAT testing, training ServiceNow users, facilitating workshops with ISSO/ISSM personnel, system owners, or PMOs, and creating SOPs and quick reference guides.

Nice To Haves

• Experience producing decision-useful current-state, target-state, and transition architectures across multiple technology domains.
• Working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modeling methods such as DoDAF, UAF, capability-based planning, and minimal viable architecture.
• Understanding of Intelligence Community and Department of War governance, cybersecurity, acquisition, lifecycle, and operational considerations.
• Experience developing architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and exception processes.
• Experience providing ServiceNow change-management support for thousands of users and increasing adoption of ServiceNow tools.
• Experience implementing form validation and conditional logic to enforce vetting.
• Experience building integrations for identity or group lookups, access-controlled evidence storage links, or eMASS and other RMF systems.
• Experience optimizing Virtual Agent or chat-to-ticket functions.
• Experience building role-based ServiceNow training for end users, fulfillment teams, RMF practitioners, and project managers.
• Experience running UAT cycles and managing defect triage.
• Experience with the CAM module and A&A processes.

Responsibilities

• Review secure and unsecure phone systems, network and platform hardware and software, and network environments to identify applications, enterprise systems, and services that can be modernized or optimized, considering their relationships to core business processes.
• Assess lifecycle status, obsolescence, duplication, interoperability, standards alignment, investment dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Identify cross-domain dependencies, gaps, redundancies, constraints, and risks across infrastructure, applications, data, security, identity, cloud, and network.
• Evaluate relevant technologies and trends, identify mission-aligned use cases, and frame expected value, risks, dependencies, and adoption considerations.
• Provide technology recommendations and work with the Chief Architect on the enterprise technology roadmap, including prediction of equipment and technology end-of-life.
• Recommend actionable adoption, sustainment, migration, consolidation, and retirement plans for hardware and software.
• Prepare decision packages for review boards and IT leadership that document outcomes, alternatives, assumptions, dependencies, tradeoffs, costs, risks, technical-debt implications, standards impact, and recommendations.
• Coordinate technical proposals and recommendations with engineering teams responsible for developing and deploying architecture solutions.
• Deliver executive briefings and communicate overall cost associated with proposed architecture, including value proposition, available services, decisions influenced, risks reduced, and modernization progress.
• Develop and maintain enterprise reference architectures, conformance criteria, exception guidance, and current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture products such as engineering designs.
• Assess overall cost associated (OCA) maturity, stakeholder demand, current architecture activities, and capability gaps.
• Develop and maintain prioritized architecture initiatives, associated costs, intake processes, work plans, methods, templates, repository structures, and performance measures.
• Coordinate architecture products with IT departments and program stakeholders to ensure they are authoritative, reusable, implementable, and operationally supportable.
• Support ServiceNow workflows and user experiences, including Flow Designer and Integration Hub patterns, catalog items, PPM configuration, reusable subflows, and Continuous Authorization Monitoring (CAM) processes.
• Lead process mapping and future-state design; write user stories and user acceptance criteria; manage UAT; train ServiceNow users; facilitate stakeholder workshops; and create SOPs and quick reference guides.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages.
• Benefits.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Referral bonus after a successful hire, paid 90 days after the new hire’s start date; amounts vary by candidate skill level and position and are provided as a gift certificate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed