Solutions Architect

Systems Engineering Solutions Corporation • Suitland, MD

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About The Position

The Solution Architect is responsible for evaluating stakeholder requirements, business objectives, operational needs, enterprise capabilities, architectural constraints, and technical dependencies to formulate practical, scalable, secure, and supportable solution recommendations. The role serves as the primary bridge among requirements analysis, enterprise architecture, platform architecture, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders by transforming mission and business needs into actionable solution approaches.
The Solution Architect assesses current-state capabilities, identifies functional and technical gaps, evaluates alternatives, and develops recommendations that balance business value, implementation complexity, operational impacts, organizational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability. The role helps organizations determine not only what is being requested, but whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy the need, what gaps must be addressed, and what solution approach provides the most effective path forward.
Working closely with engineering teams, cybersecurity, system teams, and business stakeholders, the Solution Architect supports working groups, architectural reviews, and investment discussions by providing objective analysis and solution recommendations grounded in both business priorities and technical realities.
Success is measured by the program's ability to make informed decisions, address capability gaps, leverage existing investments, and implement solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes while minimizing unnecessary complexity, duplication, risk, and technical debt.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• At least 12 years of experience supporting solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating those requirements into actionable solution approaches.
• Demonstrated experience assessing current-state capabilities, identifying capability gaps, evaluating constraints, and developing recommendations that align business needs with technical realities.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operational capabilities.
• Experience conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, capability assessments, and solution evaluations within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience evaluating solution alternatives and performing trade studies that consider business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle costs, and long-term sustainability.
• Experience identifying opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns to satisfy stakeholder requirements.
• Experience supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, stakeholder engagement, solution assessments, and decision-support activities across multiple business and technology domains.
• Experience formulating recommendations supported by technical analysis, business considerations, operational impacts, implementation constraints, and strategic objectives.
• Experience working closely with enterprise architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations organizations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders.
• Experience developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, solution recommendations, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working across multiple technology domains including infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, software development, data and analytics, cybersecurity, service management, and systems integration.
• Agile delivery methodologies, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, and iterative solution delivery.
• One or more major cloud service providers and associated enterprise services, including commercial and government cloud environments.
• CI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, and release management practices.
• Enterprise architecture, modeling, and visualization tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ArchiMate, or comparable platforms.
• Performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, and operational analytics capabilities.
• Architecture frameworks, capability modeling, business architecture, service architecture, systems engineering, and decision-support methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting engineering and operations, working groups, platform teams, Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), Technology Review Boards (TRBs), governance forums, investment reviews, or comparable decision-making bodies.
• Experience conducting capability assessments, gap analyses, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), trade studies, modernization assessments, technology evaluations, and business case development.
• Experience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, cloud migration, service delivery improvement, platform rationalization, or technology lifecycle management initiatives.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, architecture reviews, operational assessments, and executive decision-support activities.
• Experience developing business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, solution roadmaps, transition plans, implementation strategies, or modernization plans.
• Experience supporting large-scale, geographically distributed, mission-critical, highly available, or regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve interoperability, reduce redundancy, strengthen service delivery, and optimize technology investments.
• Professional certifications in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, systems engineering, project management, IT service management, cloud architecture, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.
• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Evaluate completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications of proposed requirements.
• Translate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations.
• Assess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities.
• Identify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities.
• Determine whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy stakeholder requirements.
• Document findings and develop recommendations for addressing identified gaps and deficiencies.
• Develop solution concepts and candidate approaches that address identified business needs and capability gaps.
• Evaluate multiple alternatives and analyze associated benefits, risks, dependencies, implementation complexity, operational impacts, and costs.
• Facilitate analysis of alternatives, trade studies, and decision-support activities.
• Recommend solution approaches that balance mission value, technical feasibility, organizational readiness, and long-term sustainability.
• Develop decision-ready recommendations supported by objective analysis and documented rationale.
• Clearly communicate benefits, tradeoffs, constraints, risks, assumptions, and implementation considerations.
• Support working groups, review boards, architecture governance processes, and executive decision forums.
• Assist leadership in understanding the implications of competing solution approaches before committing resources.
• Assist project and program teams in translating approved solutions into implementation plans.
• Identify dependencies, sequencing considerations, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs.
• Support planning activities associated with deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement.
• Help reduce implementation risk through early identification of technical, organizational, and operational challenges.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance

What This Job Offers

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