Solution Train Architect

Spry Methods • Stafford, VA

17h

About The Position

As the Solution Train Architect, your day will center on defining, evolving, and driving execution of the end-to-end solution architecture that enables multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to deliver integrated, mission-ready capabilities. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and delivery ensuring architectural intent is clear, actionable, and consistently executed across the Solution Train.

Requirements

• ARTs delivering integrated solutions with minimal architectural rework.
• Clear, shared architectural understanding across teams.
• Reduced technical risk and increased delivery predictability.
• A solution architecture that enables MCEN to scale, adapt, and deliver mission outcomes with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solution Management, Solution Train Engineer (STE), portfolio leadership, and business stakeholders to ensure solution architecture aligns to strategic themes and epics, portfolio and solution intent MCEN operational and mission needs.
• Translate high-level strategy into clear architectural guidance, roadmaps, and guardrails that ARTs can execute against.
• Make deliberate trade-off decisions balancing mission outcomes, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Actively engage with System Architects, ART Architects, and engineering leads to drive consistent architectural patterns and decisions across the Solution Train.
• Participate in ART and Solution-level events (PI Planning, Pre-PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt) to validate architectural integrity, resolve cross-ART dependencies and constraints, identify emerging technical risks early, and ensure architectural runway is intentionally planned and built to support near- and long-term feature delivery.
• Lead the development and evolution of solution architecture artifacts, including solution intent, reference architectures and standards, and interface and integration models.
• Provide hands-on architectural coaching, ensuring teams understand why architectural decisions are made not just what they are.
• Work decisively to address architectural drift, technical debt, or deviation from agreed architectural direction.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed