Senior Solution Architect

Company Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Position Overview

The Solution Architect will be a part of a multifaceted, matrixed, and integrated innovations team, supporting a large, complex, and innovative AWS cloud-based solution.

 

The Solution Architect will establish strategic solution vision and design and create complex solution architectures, define requirements, and author design documentation and related technical artifacts that drive current and future program results, improving efficiency within the program and delivering improvements to service delivery to the customer, while working closely with the Chief Architect, engineering leads, and customer stakeholders.  The Solution Architect will own solution design, engaging with all technical teams on the program, establish logical and physical architectures, lead technical designs, determine priorities, scope additional work, and oversee the planning and development of capabilities, and will lead the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise.

 

The Solution Architect will support new business development activities, such as engaging with stakeholders and leadership to shape new business opportunities, authoring whitepapers and RFI responses, and conducting trade studies and analyses of alternatives, while proposing new and innovative solutions that align with strategic objectives. As needed, the Solution Architect will respond to requests to estimate cost, timeline, and effort, and refine scope of work by developing relevant artifacts. The Solution Architect will communicate regularly with individuals across roles and levels, including executive leadership.

 

This position is primarily remote; however, travel to GSM-O sites is required when necessary and candidates must be within commuting distance to Fort Meade, MD.

Responsibilities

Architecture and Design

• Own the solution architecture of a large, cloud-based operations support system platform, responsible for the architecture and design, and accountable for creating and implementing innovative technical solutions for the GSM-O program.  
• Lead architectural design and technical planning, including roadmap development and implementation of modern techniques and technologies such as Cloud (AWS), Software Defined Networking (SDN), AIOps, AI/ML, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Develop and maintain complex solution architectures and design documentation, ensure alignment with strategic objectives and program goals, integrate new technologies into architectures, and evaluate tools for high-quality delivery. Maintain a forward-looking perspective on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Support innovation planning, analytical research, architecture, and design development across the innovations portfolio, and analyze government customer requirements to develop system requirements specifications.
• Perform data gathering, requirements definition and analysis, use case development, gap analysis, dependency analysis and management, develop functional and design specifications, and provide measurable input to new solutions, processes, or standards to achieve functional/project objectives.
• Facilitate problem-solving to manage risk, remove impediments, drive program-level continuous improvement, validate system characteristics, properties and behaviors, and enable early feedback.
• Own the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise, leveraging technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost/risk, and supportability effectiveness analyzes for systems across the DISN and GSM-O. 
• Support evaluation of new technologies, platforms or enhancements which could expand or enhance the GSMO-II program.
• Support the design, implementation, and execution of test cases and testing framework for the instantiation of infrastructure as code in environment to verify the quality of deployed code. Author and execute User Acceptance strategies, plans and scripts for the innovation’s deployment.

 

Collaboration

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, vendors, and government personnel, to define technical solutions, resolve dependencies, and drive positive change within the program.
• Work with the team leadership to define technical priorities, establish logical and physical architectures, and lead technical designs.
• Conduct senior-level customer presentations and demonstrations, and int