Solution Architect

GD Information Technology • Fairview Park, VT

12d • Remote

About The Position

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Solution Architect at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. The Advana team is seeking a Solution Architect to join their program. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

Requirements

• 3 + years of related experience
• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Currently Possess
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Nice To Haves

• Complex Systems
• Complex Systems Design
• System Designs

Responsibilities

• Designs technical solution architectures supporting Advana enterprise objectives across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS environments by translating mission requirements into scalable, secure, and interoperable system designs.
• Develops architecture diagrams, interface specifications, and engineering artifacts that reflect Advana system modernization priorities, reference models, and enclave-level parity requirements.
• Conducts technology evaluations and alternatives analyses using industry frameworks, cloud service benchmarks, integration patterns, and cybersecurity constraints to recommend components suitable for multi-domain deployment.
• Participates in enterprise architecture review boards to validate architectural alignment with Government direction, cross-program dependencies, and operational constraints imposed by Combatant Commands, Joint Staff elements, and federal mission partners.
• Supports proof-of-concept efforts by constructing prototype architectures, validating design assumptions, assessing performance characteristics, and documenting technical outcomes to guide full-scale implementation.
• Collaborates with software engineering, data engineering, cybersecurity, and platform operations teams to define implementation approaches, integration paths, and migration sequences supporting Advana system evolution.
• Produces technical design documents, engineering analysis reports, interface definitions, and configuration artifacts that strengthen traceability, reduce integration risk, and support program decision making.
• Maintains architecture documentation libraries and contributes to version control practices, metadata tagging, and architecture governance activities to sustain consistency and alignment across enclaves.
• Advances enterprise architecture maturity by recommending improvements that enhance system resilience, operational efficiency, and mission value for Advana stakeholders.

Benefits

• AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• dental plan options
• a vision plan
• a 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
• a 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