Cloud Solutions Architect

About the role

Own the opportunity as a Cloud Solutions Architect and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud-native solutions that accelerate digital transformation and enhance mission readiness. Your work will be central to helping our clients modernize, automate and secure different environments using advanced cloud-native capabilities and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal cloud solution strategist during federal capture and proposal efforts, translating mission requirements and evaluation criteria into winning, market-aligned architectures and technical narratives
• Closely partner with business development, capture managers, proposal managers, and executive stakeholders to define discriminators, win themes, solution storylines, and customer-aligned messaging for proposals and orals
• Lead the development of technical proposal artifacts, including architecture diagrams, technical volumes, briefings, compliance matrices, and oral presentation content, tailored to specific agency acquisition strategies
• Lead all solution aspects of a task area, workstream or functional program area for pursuits, collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization as well as vendors to deliver compliant, comprehensive, persuasive, and innovative solutions
• Advise internal teams on cloud strategy, modernization pathways, mission resilience, security posture, and cost-optimized solution approaches that resonate with government evaluators
• Act as a persuasive and charismatic technical advocate, able to clearly communicate complex cloud capabilities to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences during capture engagements and proposal reviews
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and governance teams to validate technical feasibility, cost structures, deployment models, and compliance alignment (including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, and DoW frameworks)
• Guide internal teams on AWS best practices, AI/ML opportunity areas, and differentiating technologies that should be emphasized in competitive proposals
• Facilitate technical solution reviews to ensure proposed architectures are innovative, compliant, accurate, and aligned with evolving government mandates, cloud strategies, and evaluation trends
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies such as generative AI, container security, edge computing, and automated governance, and translate them into proposal-ready value propositions and forward-leaning discriminators

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of total experience, with 8+ years of experience architecting cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on solution design, technical strategy, and pre-sales or proposal support
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud-native architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q
• Proven experience contributing to federal, state, or local government proposals—including authoring technical volumes, shaping solution narratives, producing architecture diagrams, and supporting orals
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) to ensure proposed architectures are feasible and automatable
• Working knowledge of federal compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DoW Cloud SRG) and the ability to integrate compliance requirements into cloud solution designs
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives, capture teams, and proposal evaluators
• Effective in a fast-paced, collaborative proposal environment as well as independently with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying risks, shaping differentiators, and strengthening overall solution competitiveness

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate required (Professional strongly preferred)
• Security Clearance: Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance

Skills

• Cloud Solutions
• Proposal Presentation
• Proposal Strategy
• Proposal Support
• Solution Architecture

Benefits

GDIT offers a comprehensive benefits and wellness package, including a 401(k) plan with company match, competitive pay and paid time off, and a variety of paid leave plans. We also provide short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance. Our Total Rewards package is reviewed regularly to ensure it reflects what our employees value most.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $182,750 - $247,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: 10-25%

Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote