Vice President, Technical Solutions

Orbis

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About The Position

Orbis Operations is building its international and commercial business, and the Vice President, Technical Solutions serves as its principal technical authority. The role shapes, wins, and provides accountability for complex technology programs for allied-nation, coalition, and commercial clients, owning engagements from solution design through sustained operations. It provides technical judgment to drive client outcomes and firm growth by translating Orbis’s capabilities into client needs and delivering on commitments.

The position requires recent, relevant operational experience with problems involving data access and sharing across boundaries, and the ability to discuss current mission problems, clients, and technology from firsthand experience. The role involves 30–40% global travel, CONUS and OCONUS, frequently on short notice, including travel to austere or non-permissive locations.

Orbis describes its work as delivering sovereign intelligence and decision capabilities to the United States Government and its allies. It emphasizes producing working capability rather than consulting deliverables. Orbis works in arrangements determined by mission requirements, which may include customer sites, offices, hybrid schedules, or remote work; the specific arrangement for this role is not stated.

Requirements

• 15+ years of combined operational and technical experience across defense, intelligence, international, or commercial technology programs.
• Meaningful experience in special operations, the intelligence community, or federal law enforcement, such as USSOCOM and its subordinate commands.
• Recent and relevant operational exposure, with the ability to speak to current mission problems, current clients, and current technology.
• Direct experience with data access and sharing problems, including information that could not reach an operator or analyst and the consequences.
• 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role, such as VP Engineering, Principal Architect, Chief Engineer, or equivalent, with direct ownership of delivery, technical strategy, and client relationships.
• Current passport and personal flexibility to travel on days’ notice.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Ability to travel globally 30–40% on short notice, including to austere or non-permissive locations.
• Prolonged periods at a computer and ability to read a screen for extended periods.
• Clear verbal communication in person, by phone, and by video.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 10 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Delivery experience with allied-nation, coalition, or Five Eyes partners.
• Senior relationships across international defense, intelligence, or partner-nation organizations.
• Modernization of tactical networks, C4ISR, or enterprise communications architectures for defense, special operations, or coalition customers.
• Senior executive experience (CTO, Chief Engineer, or equivalent) leading technological transformation at USSOCOM, USASOC, or a service-level command.
• Experience operating in disconnected, degraded, or bandwidth-constrained environments.
• Substantive command of moving data across network and domain boundaries under policy control, including cross-domain and multi-level security, zero-trust architecture, coalition data sharing, and the relationship between governance and data flow.
• Informed judgment on AI, data pipelines, and automation, including where AI accelerates decision cycles and where it introduces unacceptable mission risk.
• Systems-level architecture judgment and proven delivery of enterprise-scale platforms for defense, intelligence, international, or commercial customers.
• Gravitas and business acumen sufficient to advise executive leadership and senior client stakeholders.
• CI or FS polygraph preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal technical strategist for Orbis’s international and commercial portfolio, shaping solution strategy and positioning Catalyst, Pulse, and Discovery to win new business.
• Own technical standards for end-to-end delivery across international and commercial programs; serve as final technical approver on solution designs and drive programs toward on-time, on-budget, on-mission delivery.
• Own program-level accountability for technical quality and client satisfaction.
• Lead and develop technical delivery leads and solutions architects, including the Principal Solutions Architect.
• Build trusted relationships with senior technical stakeholders across allied-nation defense and intelligence organizations, commercial partners, and industry peers.
• Represent Orbis executive leadership internationally.
• Evaluate emerging technology for integration into Orbis solutions.
• Shape product prioritization with Product Managers based on client feedback and market demand.

Benefits

• Competitive retirement matching.
• PTO policy that encourages time off.
• Comprehensive benefits package; a full benefits list is shared with candidates following an initial HR conversation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed