Solution Architect SME

General Dynamics Information Technology • Falls Church, VA

3d • $187,179 - $216,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Apply your expertise to advance the mission and optimize our business strategy as a Solution Architect SME at GDIT. Here, you'll support solving some of our clients' biggest challenges and help us grow the business. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Solution Architect SME, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a technically versatile problem-solver joining our team — someone who can bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution, and guide enterprise technology initiatives from concept through deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. Equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
• 15+ years in enterprise IT, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading solution design for platform migrations or technology replacements, and supporting formal governance processes such as ARB, CAB, or PMO gate reviews.
• Broad working knowledge across enterprise IT domains including identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, networking, and endpoint management; familiarity with commercial vs. FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments and how authorization levels affect solution design; ability to produce and validate architectural diagrams at logical, physical, and integration layers; strong written communication skills with the ability to produce accurate, audience-appropriate documentation
• Demonstrated experience working across diverse organizational roles — including project managers, business stakeholders, and technical engineering staff — with the ability to adjust communication style and level of detail to suit each audience

Nice To Haves

• Relevant professional certifications in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, identity platforms, or related technical disciplines (e.g., Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, TOGAF, or equivalent)

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design for enterprise technology replacement, modernization, and consolidation initiatives spanning identity, cloud infrastructure, end-user computing, networking, and endpoint management
• Serve as the solution lead throughout the project lifecycle — defining integration requirements and architectural guardrails that engineering teams and vendors are accountable for delivering against
• Act as a translator between business and technical teams, converting stakeholder requirements into actionable technical direction and reframing technical constraints into terms that drive decisions
• Work closely with project managers to define technical scope, surface risks early, review project documentation for technical accuracy, and ensure architecture deliverables align with project milestones
• Represent the solution at Architecture Review Board (ARB), Operational Readiness Review (ORR), and other governance gate reviews — synthesizing engineering and vendor inputs into a cohesive, validated solution position
• Provide technical inputs to the communications team and project managers, ensuring stakeholder-facing materials accurately reflect the solution design and current project status
• Develop and maintain internal technical documentation — including design documents, runbooks, and decision logs — that serves as the authoritative source of record across all project stakeholders

Benefits

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

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