Director, Solutions Architect

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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.

 

Job Description:

Parsons has emerged as a leader in the development of cutting-edge solutions for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Our tremendous success can be attributed to our people and our priorities. We hire the best; we make them a priority and we never lose focus on the mission. It’s why we’re here. We have built this cultural legacy by working closely with analysts and operators to understand their needs and delivering meaningful value through innovative, cost effective, and intuitive solutions.

 

Our Defense and Intelligence Market is passionate about making America the undisputed leader because we understand that ensuring our nation’s security for future generations depends on it. Parsons creates game changing C2, cyber, space, electronic warfare, and multi-domain solutions by teaming highly respected subject matter experts with brilliant technologists.

 

Our Market portfolio includes programs that are designing, developing, and delivering cutting-edge software and hardware solutions across multi-domain mission areas. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Solutions Architect to support our business development and growth efforts and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Parsons and our nation’s warfighting capabilities.

 

Reports to the VP of Strategic Solutions, working within the D&I CTO organization while also closely with the D&I management and technical leads, the successful candidate will be responsible for driving technical partnerships and initiatives, identifying technical capabilities and solutions, all supporting the primary role of solution development on strategic and highly competitive proposal initiatives.  You will leverage your expertise in technology, operational experience, and business planning to formulate and implement solutions, build relationships within the market and sectors, support in early shaping activities and collaborate with the growth team to ensure technical alignment supporting our positioning for success..

 

Qualifications:

•  Identifies, develops, and drives technology solutions within the D&I mission areas to support a full understanding of mission and customer requirements. Develops and executes proposal solution development augmented with technology solutions.
• Experience in proposal development and writing technical reports.
• Leads the integration of cutting-edge technologies to enhance capabilities in support of key growth initiatives. Evaluates and recommends emerging technologies that align with mission and operational needs.
• Leverages a strong network of customer and industry contacts and familiarity with our customers’ major programs and upcoming initiatives. Keeps abreast of the current business climate and overall industry trends.
• Collaborates with D&I Account Executive teams to support emerging growth opportunities, identify and develop solutions for emerging trends, and understand the competitive landscape.
• Provides leadership and guidance to proposal team from inception to completion, leading the solution development and technical approach volumes.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Designs innovative and scalable technology solutions, focused on Tactical C5ISR Systems, Networking & Operations, Open Systems Architectures, Electronic Warfare, Modeling & Simulation, Systems Integration, Operational Test & Evaluation. Demonstrated ability to apply analytical approaches to architect solutions to counter threats within each domain.
• Understanding of open architectures, modular design, and overall US Army strategy regarding open architectures.
• Experience with Army PEO C3T, PEO IEW&S, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, CECOM SEC, DoD Acquisition System Engineering and Management, NSA certification/accreditation, Army Training, and Combat Field Operations Support.
• Technical focus on systems engineering, prototype development, tactical edge communication/networking/network management and operation, open systems architecture, and a complete knowledge of acq