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 domain expertise, and client relationship management to maintain stakeholder satisfaction and drive account growth. Grow key accounts and expand into organizations aligned with the health and life sciences market strategy. Lead teams through the full 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 identify mitigation steps with technical and business teams. Advise senior scientific, clinical, public health, life sciences, and IT leaders on healthcare technology programs. Develop business pipeline by identifying and qualifying opportunities, leading technical solutioning, and supporting healthcare-focused proposals involving areas such as data systems modernization, cloud adoption, scientific computing, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms. Apply expertise in federal health architectures, life sciences, public health, 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, and scale delivery teams. Mentor and support the career development of junior architects, engineers, and technical delivery managers.
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 to mission needs.
- Ability to tailor technical briefings, demonstrations, and architectures to shape 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 technologies and platforms relevant to federal healthcare, including high-performance computing, FAIR data practices, data-sharing architectures, cloud-native scientific tools, cybersecurity frameworks, and AI/ML enablement.
- Experience driving business growth 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, and strategic thinking skills.
- Excellent writing skills for 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 implementation support.
- Monitor technical delivery and security risks, communicate them to stakeholders, and coordinate 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 opportunities, lead technical solutioning, and support proposal development tailored to healthcare needs.
- Design and implement scalable technical solutions that advance research, data sharing, and operational maturity across healthcare.
- Collaborate with cross-functional capability teams and market leadership to align technical strategies, advance business opportunities, and scale delivery teams.
- Grow key healthcare accounts and expand into organizations aligned with the health and life sciences market strategy.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and career development to junior architects, engineers, and technical delivery managers.
- Manage technical delivery, capture, and proposal lifecycles for federal clients; produce technical solutions and present them 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
