Solution Architect

Overview

REI Systems’ mission is to deliver reliable and innovative technology solutions that empower federal, state, local, and nonprofit organizations to achieve their missions. For over 35 years, we’ve helped our customers solve complex challenges, make data-driven decisions, streamline processes, and improve citizen services. As a 100% employee-owned company, we are all directly invested in delivering excellence. With a fierce commitment to mission impact, we ensure measurable outcomes that align with our customers’ strategic goals. 

 

REI is also leading the industry in the integration of Artificial Intelligence across federal capture, delivery, and customer engagement. We leverage AI-driven research, opportunity intelligence, competitive assessments, and customer insight tools to elevate our win strategies and accelerate decision-making. This role will work in an environment where AI is embedded into the capture lifecycle—and will be expected to use AI tools to enhance capture quality, speed, and precision.

 

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable engaging executives, leading product demos, understanding customer workflows, and translating business needs into compelling solution narratives.

 

We offer the same commitment to our employees by providing professional development, meaningful projects, and flexibility to spend time with family and friends. We believe employees are at their best when fulfilled in both their professional careers and their personal lives. Learn more at www.REIsystems.com.  

 

Employees voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025!

Responsibilities

Position Overview

REI Systems is seeking a highly experienced and delivery-focused Lead Solution Architect to provide end-to-end architectural leadership for large-scale enterprise modernization initiatives supporting mission-critical business, regulatory, and operational systems.

The successful candidate will serve as the principal technical authority across application architecture, cloud transformation, AI enablement, security, DevSecOps, and solution delivery. This role requires a strategic thinker who can define future-state architectures, drive modernization roadmaps, influence stakeholders, and lead cross-functional teams in delivering secure, scalable, and innovative solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong consulting and communication skills, and a proven ability to deliver enterprise solutions from concept through production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise applications and modernization programs.
• Define target-state architectures, technology strategies, and transformation roadmaps.
• Establish architecture standards, governance processes, design patterns, and technical guardrails.
• Ensure alignment across business, application, data, integration, security, infrastructure, and operational domains.
• Lead architecture reviews, design workshops, and technical decision-making forums.

Cloud Modernization & Digital Transformation

• Lead migration and modernization efforts from legacy and on-premises platforms to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Define cloud adoption strategies including microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containerization, and serverless solutions.
• Develop hybrid architecture approaches supporting coexistence of cloud and on-premises environments.
• Drive application modernization, technical debt reduction, and platform transformation initiatives.

AI & Innovation Leadership

• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), intelligent automation, and emerging technologies.
• Define enterprise AI adoption strategies, governance frameworks, and responsible AI practices.
• Guide integration of AI-enabled capabilities that improve productivity, user experience, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend innovation opportunities aligned with business objectives.

Delivery Leadership

• Partner with Program Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and Executive Stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Drive accountability across development, testing, DevSecOps, security, and operations teams.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure architecture decisions support schedule, budget, performance, security, and operational objectives.
• Provide technical leader