Senior Solution Architect

KBR • Chantilly, VA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

KBR provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. This position has a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR's Defense & Intel team is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Solution Architect with a strong background in creating innovative and customer-focused solutions. This role is pivotal in driving the technical strategy and solution design for business opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and organizational goals. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record working in Government, Defense, and Intelligence communities, providing support to capture efforts, proposal writing, and oral presentations. This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform, modernize, and accelerate the delivery of new capabilities. If you thrive at the intersection of technology and business development, this is the role for you.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 10 years of prior experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Strong team building and leadership capabilities to engage key internal and external sources to develop clear, concise solutions to difficult problem sets across the DoW and IC.
• Experience leading technical solutioning in partnership with business development and capture management teams.
• Technical solutioning experience in the defense and intelligence community markets for technology-centric business units providing both services and products to US Government customers.
• Proven ability to successfully derive customer solutions based on understanding of customer problems that meet technical objectives within cost and schedule.
• Ability to interact with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Key Stakeholders (internal to KBR and external), Technical Experts, and other key roles to develop a compelling Solution for strategic growth markets and opportunities aligned with the NSS growth strategy.
• Understanding of Cybersecurity, System of Systems, Software, and Agile Engineering current and emerging processes in use across Defense and Intelligence Customer communities such as Digital Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), DevSecOps, and Cloud Architectures.
• Active Top Secret Clearance is required, with eligibility for TS/SCI.

Responsibilities

• Engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and KBR capabilities to design, develop, and deliver winning proposals.
• Collaborating with Business Development, Capture, and Proposal teams to craft compelling, technically sound solutions that align with customer needs and win strategies.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into proposal artifacts.
• Leading the development of technical volumes for proposals, including writing, reviewing, and editing content to ensure compliance with RFP requirements.
• Translating customer objectives into innovative technical solutions that address mission challenges while adhering to budget and schedule constraints.
• Conducting market research, identifying discriminators, and articulating value propositions that differentiate our solutions from competitors.
• Developing comprehensive artifacts such as system designs, technical roadmaps, and implementation plans to support proposal efforts.
• Participating in reviews to refine proposal content and ensure alignment with win themes.
• Researching emerging technologies and incorporating them into solution designs to enhance competitiveness.
• Leading and writing technical proposals, whitepapers, and developing other collaterals in support of technical solutions.
• Providing responses to request for information (RFI) and government market surveys or sources sought notices.
• Providing basis of estimates (BOEs) for technical solutions.

Benefits

• 401K plan with company match
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• AD&D
• flexible spending account
• disability
• paid time off
• flexible work schedule
• professional training and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior