Solutions Architect

General Dynamics Information Technology • USA VA Home Office (VAHOME), VA

11d • $170,144 - $218,500 • Remote

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Solutions Architect of Cloud Solutions. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Solutions Architect, our work depends on two activities that win and prove our work: writing winning technical proposals and building the proofs of concept that show agencies what "good" actually looks like. Some weeks you'll be heads-down on a technical volume against a hard RFP deadline. Others you'll be in a sandbox environment standing up a working prototype for a client demo. If you like being the person who can both articulate the architecture on paper and then go build it, this is that job. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll own solutions end to end, and you'll be trusted to run a bid's technical approach or a client POC without day-to-day direction. You will not be a full-time bid writer, and you will not be a full-time engineer; you'll be the bridge between them.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience
• 15+ years in cloud architecture, engineering, or technical presales, including 3+ years supporting federal government customers or federal contracts
• Deep hands-on experience in AWS or Azure, including its federal regions
• Direct experience contributing technical content to federal proposals. You've written to an evaluation factor and been scored on it
• Practical skill with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, and Python
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP and the ATO process
• Strong technical writing
• Good communication skills and comfortable with interaction with all levels of staff, to include other solutions architects, leadership, in addition to interfacing with business owners and customers

Nice To Haves

• Professional-level cloud certification: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Security certification such as CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent
• Google Cloud experience, particularly in Assured Workloads or other federal-eligible configurations
• Hands-on experience designing or prototyping modern data, AI/ML, or Generative AI solutions using cloud-native services and enterprise data sources: RAG, enterprise search and knowledge retrieval, model and API integration, or AI-enabled data platforms
• Experience with federal contract vehicles and task-order competitions
• Familiarity with Shipley or a comparable capture and proposal methodology
• Prior experience at a systems integrator or a cloud provider's public sector organization
• Strong backend skills in at least one of Node/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, or C#, and comfort building and consuming REST APIs

Responsibilities

• Serve as a credible senior technical voice in front of federal customers, teaming partners, and cloud provider field teams
• Maintain working fluency in the compliance frameworks our clients operate under: FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO, and federal Zero Trust requirements under current OMB and CISA guidance
• Build and maintain relationships with [AWS, Microsoft, Google] public sector partner teams
• Serve as technical lead or contributing author on cloud architecture content for RFP, RFI, RFQ, and sources-sought responses: technical volumes, architecture diagrams, transition plans, and management approach sections
• Translate agency requirements (PWS/SOW/SOO) into defensible technical solutions with clear discriminators, not boilerplate
• Develop basis-of-estimate inputs, level-of-effort assumptions, and cloud cost models that pricing and capture can actually use
• Participate in Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews; incorporate reviewer feedback under deadline pressure without losing the thread of the solution
• Support oral presentations and technical Q&A with agency evaluators
• Build out our reusable technical library: reference architectures, technical case studies, reusable solution modules, and technical past-performance assets
• Scope, build, and demo working POCs and pilots in federal cloud environments that address a specific client problem
• Stand up infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and data or AI/ML pipelines as the use case demands
• Run technical discovery sessions and whiteboard workshops with client architects, CIO/CTO staff, and program leadership
• Evaluate prototypes for security, data protection, cost, and operational suitability. What we show has to survive contact with an ATO
• Document POC outcomes clearly enough that they become the technical foundation of the follow-on proposal or task order
• Hand off successful prototypes to delivery teams with architecture documentation, runbooks, and a clean IaC repo

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

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