Chief Solution Architect

Chief Solution Architect

Key Role:

Act as a strategic business leader and technical program manager partnering directly with internal and external senior leaders to effectively lead the shaping, capture, and delivery of multi-million-dollar U.S. Government engagements. Lead project teams throughout the software delivery life cycle of the program to support the client with critical missions. Provide delivery leadership, business management, and client management for multiple software development projects or programs. Provide strategic thought leadership regarding technical management, software delivery, system solutioning, and client management for multiple software development projects. Drive all aspects of contract management, financial performance, and budget control of existing programs and debrief executive leadership with financial estimates and ROMs for new development efforts. Maintain responsibility for the leadership and development of experienced teams of professionals.

Basic Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience working in a technical field managing the development of software systems with a focus on modernization efforts in forward-leaning technology, including cloud, DevSecOps automation platforms or MLOps automation platforms, enterprise data, and open-source tech stacks in the DoD, federal government, or commercial entities
• 10+ years of experience with technical solutioning and integrating disparate technologies that directly address client challenges
• 10+ years of experience with managing projects using various SDLC models, including CMMI, SAFe, and Agile
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-enabled solutions, architecture development, and "As a Service" offerings
• Experience with managing contracts greater than $5 million and leading project teams of 25+, including sub-contractors
• Experience in all phases of the proposal lifecycle
• Experience with developing and delivering tailored, complex presentations to senior-level stakeholders and clients that illustrate solutions to client problems and drive forward a capture, improving the probability of win leadership, and bringing innovation to achieve business needs
• Ability to design, modify, develop, write, and implement software programming applications for geospatial systems
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field, including CS

Additional Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with cybersecurity for classified systems
• 5+ years of experience with AI/ML methodologies applied to classified systems
• 5+ years of experience with big data or data pipeline architectures applied to classified systems
• Knowledge of government agency or DoD enterprise-wide systems, system-to-system integrations, and system development processes
• Master's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field, including CS a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or DAWIA Level III Program Manager Certification
• Agile Certified Professional (ACP) or Certified ICAgile Professional Certification
• AWS Certification, including Associate or Professional-level Certification
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification

Clearance: 

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

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