Solutions Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Description

You would join a large national intelligence program as the lead architect for an IDIQ, embedded in the PMO and covering several task orders and product lines.

The company is a global technology and professional services firm serving federal civilian, defense and intelligence customers. It has about 26,000 staff across more than 50 countries and works in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

The work centers on hard security and operational problems for intelligence and homeland security customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single trusted point for rationalizing the application portfolio across the IDIQ, keeping projects and teams consistent with one another.
• Set architecture direction across several task orders and product lines so solutions fit together, scale, and match enterprise priorities.
• Find chances to merge and modernize applications, remove duplicated technology, and simplify the technical estate.
• Assess new and existing technologies for gains in performance, security, user experience and mission results for the customer.
• Stop competing or redundant tools from spreading by steering teams toward one enterprise vision and set of standards.
• Lead and push forward the Sponsor's unified systems roadmap across product lines, systems and services at IDIQ level.
• Confirm solutions follow Sponsor standards, architectures and long-term strategy, weighing innovation against risk and cost.
• Help design and deliver the plan for bringing AI-enabled tools into the development lifecycle, spotting automation opportunities, raising developer productivity, and advising on responsible AI use that fits the mission.
• Mentor engineers on DevSecOps, agile delivery and automation practice.
• Track trends in DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers and serverless, and recommend improvements.
• Monitor team roadmaps and delivery milestones, flag blockers and risks, run root cause analysis when objectives are missed, and put process improvements in place.
• Turn technical issues into executive-level updates and take part in the monthly program management reviews on delivery health and risk.
• Advise division leadership on strategic initiatives and join executive meetings that need deep technical input.
• Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computing, engineering or information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Must currently hold TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Must be able to obtain TS/SCI with polygraph.
• 10+ years in software development, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years as a solutions architect.
• 3+ years leading several teams across task orders, or in a similar leadership role.
• A record of designing and running CI/CD pipelines for complex applications.
• Hands-on work with CI/CD tools such as Maven, Gradle, Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Hands-on work with source control and branching strategies such as Git, trunk-based and GitFlow.
• Hands-on work with AWS, Azure or GCP, including their VM, container and serverless services.
• Hands-on work with containers and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, EKS and GKE.
• Hands-on work with serverless platforms such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions.
• Hands-on work with infrastructure as code using Ansible, Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid DevSecOps knowledge, including automated security testing and compliance integration.
• Solid grasp of agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar scaled frameworks.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled development tools, finding automation opportunities, improving developer workflows, and guiding responsible AI adoption in complex software environments.
• Proven experience with ServiceNow and/or Salesforce and their core capabilities, including workflow integration, platform configuration, and using them to support enterprise development operations.
• 15+ years of related experience is listed as the experience requirement.
• Desired: a Master's or Doctorate in a related field.
• Desired: certifications such as AWS, Azure or GCP Architect or DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar, DevOps or agile certifications such as SAFe RTE, SAFe DevOps, CSM or PSM, and security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP or CCSP.
• Desired: experience implementing policy-as-code and security-as-code with tools such as OPA, Sentinel or Conftest.
• Desired: experience using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Conditions

The role is onsite at the Chantilly, VA location.

Scheduled hours are 40 per week.

No travel is required.

US citizenship is required.

The likely salary range is $214,776 to $290,580. This is not a guarantee. Pay is set by experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements, and may fall outside this range.

Identity verification uses advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to confirm authenticity and prevent fraud, and you are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. Your photo may be taken for verification, and by proceeding you consent to the use of your biometric data for identity and security purposes.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some paired with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• A 401(k) that accepts pre-tax and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits, with a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible, and paid time off covering vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, provided or available.
• The total rewards package is reviewed regularly to keep it competitive.