Program Architect - Remote
About The Position
The Program Architect provides strategic guidance to program and product leadership on technology integration, cloud computing, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation. The role influences client executives and stakeholders and partners with Principal, Solution, Technical, and Enterprise Architects on product delivery and technology selection. The Program Architect owns solution intent, architectural integrity, and lifecycle continuity from pre-award through implementation, production, and sustainment. The role ensures solutions align with contractual obligations, organizational standards, approved design patterns, security expectations, and long-term product and technology roadmaps. It balances architecture and design with price-to-win considerations and provides recommendations to senior business leadership on capital technology investments and strategic roadmaps. The position maintains and documents end-to-end program IT architecture, creates architecture diagrams and models, mentors business partners on the program technology landscape, and drives technology acceleration and innovation. It also defines technical direction for prospective business opportunities and proposals, develops solution architectures, contributes to proposal content and assessments, collaborates with security stakeholders, assesses market technology trends, supports marketing materials, and helps develop federal technical delivery methodology based on industry-standard frameworks. The role may be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S., except hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area must work in the office at least four days per week. Travel may be up to 15%.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of solutioning experience in legacy and modern software development lifecycle and services delivery.
- At least 2 years of direct engagement responding to technical Request For Proposals (RFPs).
- Experience defining and driving technical direction for prospective business opportunity proposals and strategic pursuits, developing solution architectures, and providing analysis of alternatives.
- Demonstrated expertise driving Business and IT strategies cohesively at organizational, national, and/or global scale.
- Ability to travel up to 15%.
- United States citizenship.
- If offered the position, ability to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or eligibility determination for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of employment.
Nice To Haves
- At least 6 years of experience as a Program Architect.
- Experience working in or for DoD, HHS, NIH, VA, DoC, NOAA, NIST, DoJ, Treasury, or equivalent national government organizations.
- Exemplary oral, written, interpersonal communication, and customer service skills.
- Ability to produce results within a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Principal Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, and Enterprise Architects on product delivery and technology selection.
- Own solution intent, architectural integrity, and lifecycle continuity from pre-award through implementation, production, and sustainment.
- Ensure solution architecture aligns with contractual obligations, organizational standards, approved design patterns, security expectations, and long-term product and technology roadmaps.
- Balance architecture and design against price-to-win scenarios and identify solutions based on technology fit and overall cost.
- Recommend capital technology investments and strategic technology roadmaps to business unit senior leadership.
- Support adoption of best practices in technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation, and implementation.
- Maintain and document end-to-end program IT architecture and promote continuous technology improvement in line with business strategies.
- Create and maintain contextual, conceptual, logical, and supporting architecture diagrams, models, and views at appropriate levels of detail.
- Mentor business partners on the program technology landscape, including limitations, costs, and risks.
- Drive technology acceleration and foster innovation to achieve business outcomes.
- Define and drive technical direction for prospective business opportunity proposals and strategic pursuits; develop solution architectures, provide technical leadership, and contribute to proposal writing and assessments.
- Collaborate with Information Security and security architecture stakeholders to interpret applicable requirements and confirm alignment with required security frameworks and controls.
- Assess market-level technology trends and capabilities of complementary solutions that enable larger-scale offerings.
- Support development of marketing materials such as whitepapers, slicks, and trifolds.
- Work with the CTO office to develop IT-based solutions using contextual, conceptual, and logical architectures and standards-based methodologies and practices.
- Communicate solutions to management and teaming partners through presentations and white papers.
- Support development of a federal technical delivery methodology based on industry-standard methodologies and frameworks.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Incentive and recognition programs.
- Equity stock purchase.
- 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
