Solution Architect
About The Position
Serve as a senior technical and enterprise architecture leader for healthcare clients, combining technical depth, delivery leadership, life sciences and public health expertise, and client relationship management. Help maintain and exceed stakeholder satisfaction while growing key accounts and expanding into organizations aligned with the health and life sciences market strategy. Lead teams across the architecture and delivery lifecycle, including stakeholder engagement, IT strategy development, enterprise architecture definition, modernization road mapping, and technical implementation support. Proactively monitor risks, communicate technical delivery and security risks, and coordinate mitigation with technical and business teams. Act as a trusted advisor to senior scientific, clinical, public health, life sciences, and IT leaders. Develop business opportunities by identifying and qualifying pipeline, leading technical solutioning, and supporting proposals for healthcare needs such as data systems modernization, cloud adoption, scientific computing, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms. Apply knowledge of federal health architectures and healthcare mission needs to design and implement scalable solutions that advance research, data sharing, and operational maturity. Collaborate with cross-functional capability teams and market leadership to align technical strategies, advance business opportunities, scale delivery teams, and mentor junior technical staff.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technical delivery, enterprise architecture, or systems engineering roles supporting healthcare or federal health agencies.
- 5+ years of experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior architects or engineers.
- 2+ years of experience leading capture and proposal teams to develop technical solutions.
- Experience managing technical delivery, capture, and proposal lifecycles for federal clients; producing technical solutions; and presenting to senior federal customers.
- Knowledge of federal healthcare organizational structures, mission offices, acquisition pathways, and technology partner ecosystems.
- Ability to integrate capabilities such as cloud, cybersecurity, AI, data platforms, interoperability standards, and enterprise IT into cohesive architectures aligned with mission needs.
- Ability to tailor technical briefings, demonstrations, and architectures to influence stakeholder decision-making.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or bioinformatics.
- Cloud, Cyber, AI, or PMP certification.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with emerging federal healthcare technologies and platforms, including high-performance computing, FAIR data practices, data-sharing architectures, cloud-native scientific tools, cybersecurity frameworks, and AI/ML enablement.
- Experience growing business at healthcare agencies through technical leadership that advances competitive positioning, supports new contract awards, and strengthens delivery.
- Knowledge of federal healthcare missions, research priorities, data ecosystems such as scientific data repositories and cloud-based research platforms, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Ability to collaborate with healthcare account leaders to formalize technical strategies, capture approaches, architectural assessments, and investment recommendations aligned with federal healthcare priorities.
- Ability to drive competitive technical solutioning, negotiate teaming arrangements, and communicate an architectural approach during capture and proposal activities.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for scientific, clinical, and IT audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, strategic thinking, and writing skills, including writing technical documents, proposals, whitepapers, and executive briefings.
Responsibilities
- Lead teams across the architecture and delivery lifecycle, including stakeholder engagement, IT strategy, enterprise architecture, modernization road mapping, and technical implementation support.
- Monitor delivery and security risks, communicate them to stakeholders, and identify mitigation steps with technical and business teams.
- Advise senior scientific, clinical, public health, life sciences, and IT leaders on healthcare technology programs.
- Identify and qualify business opportunities, lead technical solutioning, and support proposal development tailored to healthcare needs.
- Design and implement scalable solutions supporting research, data sharing, and operational maturity across healthcare.
- Collaborate with cross-functional capability teams and market leadership to align technical strategies, advance new business opportunities, and scale delivery teams.
- Mentor junior architects, engineers, and technical delivery managers, including providing career development.
- Lead capture and proposal activities and present technical solutions to senior federal customers.
Benefits
- Health, life, and disability benefits
- Financial and retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Professional development
- Tuition assistance
- Work-life programs
- Dependent care
- Recognition awards program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
