Director, Solutions Lead - Critical Infrastructure Resilience
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes Overview (description), Required Qualifications / Skills, Preferred Qualifications / Skills, Responsibilities. Also includes location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to, salary range. Those could be considered metadata; we can fold into a short
maybe under About the role? The instruction: do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include a short paragraph with location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to, salary range. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the overview description paragraphs, responsibilities list, required qualifications list, preferred qualifications list. Also maybe include a short paragraph for metadata. We must not create sections like Benefits, Pay, Schedule unless posting actually states them. Pay is stated: salary range $200K - $250K. So we can include a Pay section? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Also "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". Pay is specific: salary range. So we could include a Pay section with that info. However they also said "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have Pay section. Similarly Schedule? Not given. Benefits? Not given explicitly. So we omit Benefits and Schedule.
We need to decide on section headings: About the role (overview), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe Preferred?), Skills? Could combine Required Qualifications/Skills into Requirements. Preferred Qualifications/Skills into Qualifications? But they said we can use those headings. Let's think: The posting has "Required Qualifications / Skills" and "Preferred Qualifications / Skills". So we could have a Requirements section for required, and a Qualifications section for preferred. Or we could have Skills section for both? Better to follow instruction: Use headings as given. So we can have:
About the role
(overview + metadata)
Responsibilities
Requirements
(required qualifications/skills)
Qualifications
(preferred qualifications/skills)
Pay
(salary range)
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
Now we need to format lists with - . For prose use
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We need to preserve all substantive information: overview paragraphs, responsibilities bullet list, required qualifications bullet list, preferred qualifications bullet list, metadata (location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to, salary range). Salary range will go in Pay section.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting doesn't seem to have those except maybe at end? Not present.
Now craft HTML.
First, About the role: include overview paragraphs plus metadata paragraph.
Overview paragraphs: The first paragraph after "Overview Director, Solution Lead - Critical Infrastructure Resilience LOCATION: ..." Actually the overview includes location line etc. We'll extract substantive description: "Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Director, Solution Lead - Critical Infrastructure Resilience to serve as the senior solution architect and technical lead for captures across Astrion’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) mission areas: Transportation, Energy, and DIB Infrastructure. The role owns the strategic solution roadmap and translates complex requirements into differentiated, executable solutions. The Solution Lead will help transform Astrion’s CIR business from SETA-heavy labor delivery to repeatable, technology-enabled Mission Solutions that generate reusable evidence, tools, data, and outcomes. The role will lead technical solution development for priority captures and mature offerings such as Mission Evidence Packs, Digital Twins, OT/ICS Assessment & Hardening, Exercise & Readiness packages, resilience dashboards, and sector-specific readiness solutions. This role thrives in ambiguity and works with the Campaign Lead, Mission Segment Leaders, Operations, Growth, Astrion Core / Solutions leadership, Engineering, Finance, Contracts, partners, and customers to shape pursuits, develop technical approaches and roadmaps, make make/buy/partner decisions, build demonstrations, prototypes, and MVPs, and tie solution investments to qualified pipeline and customer outcomes."
We can combine that into one or two paragraphs.
Metadata: LOCATION: Arlington, VA; Washington, D.C.; Columbia, MD (HYBRID) JOB STATUS: Full-time CLEARANCE: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance CERTIFICATION: INCOSE, PMP, CISSP, GICSP, CISA/CISM, IEC 62443 (preferred) TRAVEL: Up to 30% REPORTS TO: EVP & Mission Area Executive - Critical Infrastructure Resilience SALARY RANGE: $200K - $250K
We can put location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to in a paragraph. Salary range will go in Pay section.
Now Responsibilities: list bullet points from the responsibilities section.
We need to extract each responsibility sentence. The responsibilities section is a long paragraph with many sentences separated by periods. We'll break into bullet points for each distinct responsibility.
Let's list:
- Own the CIR mission-area solution roadmap across Transportation Infrastructure, Energy Infrastructure, and DIB Infrastructure.
- Serve as the senior solution architect and technical lead for priority captures and proposals, ensuring each has differentiated, executable, and repeatable solution approaches.
- Lead end-to-end technical solution development for priority RFIs, Sources Sought notices, and RFPs: decompose requirements, engage customers pre-RFP to validate needs and sharpen positioning, architect solutions, lead technical volumes and reviews, and support post-award transition.
- Define, mature, and package CIR Mission Solutions, including Mission Evidence Packs, Digital Twins, OT/ICS Assessment & Hardening, Exercise & Readiness packages, resilience dashboards, and sector-specific readiness solutions that model dependencies, test degraded operations, validate remediation, and produce defensible mission evidence.
- Partner with Growth, Capture, and Program leadership to align solution development with 12-36 month pipeline priorities, customer demand, capture strategies, acquisition approaches, and technology trends.
- Translate complex customer mission challenges and government requirements into solution concepts, mission models, technical approaches, reference architectures, concepts of operations, implementation roadmaps, technical volumes, delivery playbooks, and post-award transition plans.
- Author and direct customer-facing technical narratives, white papers, proposal content, solution graphics, and reference architectures with limited direction.
- Lead make/buy/partner recommendations for the CIR solution roadmap, including gaps in OT/ICS, digital twin engineering, AI/data, cyber-physical assessment, commercial channels, and partner-enabled delivery.
- Integrate Astrion catalog capabilities and tools into CIR Mission Solutions where appropriate and contribute reusable CIR solution modules to Astrion’s solution catalog.
- Build and manage technical partner strategies with cloud, AI, digital twin, OT/ICS, control-system OEM, infrastructure engineering, national laboratory, small-business, and commercial channel partners.
- Establish solution governance and maturity criteria to move offerings from concept through pilot to scalable delivery; apply lessons from wins, losses, pilots, and transitions; and use requirements-to-test traceability and mission evidence where appropriate.
- Partner with Growth, Finance, Contracts, and Operations to support packaging, technical work breakdown structures and bases of estimate, pricing, contract type considerations, data rights, partner roles, and product-attached services.
- Create customer-facing and internal artifacts, including capability statements, solution briefs, demos, prototypes, MVP backlogs, white papers, reference architectures, technical differentiators, technical volumes, and proposal language.
Now Required Qualifications / Skills: list bullet points.
Extract each bullet:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, operations research, business, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
- 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution development, systems engineering, digital engineering, cyber-physical resilience, test and evaluation, critical infrastructure, defense, civil, energy, transportation, or GovTech markets.
- 8+ years of leadership experience leading multidisciplinary technical, engineering, solution-architecture, productized-services, or matrixed pursuit teams.
- Proven experience leading technical solution development across the government acquisition and proposal lifecycle, from customer shaping and opportunity qualification through RFIs, Sources Sought, RFPs, technical volumes, white papers, reviews, oral presentations, and post-award transition.
- Ability to translate complex government requirements and mission challenges into traceable solution architectures, technical approaches, work breakdown structures, bases of estimate, reference architectures, implementation roadmaps, MVPs, risks, and assumptions from concept through repeatable delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to turn services-based capabilities into repeatable, market-facing Mission Solutions, including reusable artifacts, tools, dashboards, demonstrations, delivery playbooks, and proposal-ready technical content.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering, mission integration, operational test and evaluation, cyber-physical resilience, digital engineering, data/AI, OT/ICS, or infrastructure modernization.
- Experience collaborating with capture managers, business development leaders, subject matter experts, partners, pricing, contracts, and operations to develop differentiated, executable win strategies and delivery approaches.
- Demonstrated judgment in make/buy/partner decisions, including assessment of internal capability gaps, partner technologies, build vs. buy tradeoffs, and investment priorities.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for customers, operators, growth teams, partners, and senior leadership.
- High tolerance for ambiguity, strong critical judgment, and the ability to structure and advance solutions with incomplete information while managing multiple concurrent pursuits under tight deadlines.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Now Preferred Qualifications / Skills: list bullet points.
Extract:
- Experience in critical infrastructure resilience, mission assurance, transportation modernization, energy resilience, nuclear / advanced reactor markets, or DIB Infrastructure.
- Experience with one or more priority customer or market areas, including FAA/DOT, DHS/TSA/CISA/CBP, DOE/NNSA, NRC, national laboratories, DoD infrastructure, NAVFAC, USACE, commercial nuclear, SMRs, utilities, airports, ports, rail/transit, hyperscalers, or data-center energy infrastructure.
- Experience with digital twins, model-based systems engineering, geospatial analytics, AI-enabled decision support, mission-thread modeling, consequence analysis, requirements-to-test traceability, reliability analytics, or operational readiness dashboards.
- Experience with OT/ICS/SCADA environments, industrial control systems, facility-related control systems, control-system OEMs, or OT cyber vendors and standards such as IEC 62443, NIST guidance, CISA guidance, RMF, or CMMC.
- Experience building or integrating partner ecosystems across cloud, AI, digital twin, OT/ICS, control-system OEM, infrastructure engineering, national laboratory, small-business, or commercial partners.
- Experience with DOE/NNSA Management & Operating contractors, national laboratory procurement pathways, regulated-commercial infrastructure owners/operators, or international infrastructure markets.
- Experience with IR&D planning, product management, Agile / MVP delivery, MOSA / open-architecture principles, platform-enabled services, or product-attached professional services.
- Experience supporting M&A diligence or technology acquisition decisions for capability gaps in digital engineering, OT/ICS, AI, cyber-physical resilience, critical infrastructure, or energy markets.
- Active Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
- Relevant certifications such as INCOSE, PMP, CISSP, GICSP,
. We need to preserve all substantive information: overview paragraphs, responsibilities bullet list, required qualifications bullet list, preferred qualifications bullet list, metadata (location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to, salary range). Salary range will go in Pay section. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting doesn't seem to have those except maybe at end? Not present. Now craft HTML. First, About the role: include overview paragraphs plus metadata paragraph. Overview paragraphs: The first paragraph after "Overview Director, Solution Lead - Critical Infrastructure Resilience LOCATION: ..." Actually the overview includes location line etc. We'll extract substantive description: "Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Director, Solution Lead - Critical Infrastructure Resilience to serve as the senior solution architect and technical lead for captures across Astrion’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) mission areas: Transportation, Energy, and DIB Infrastructure. The role owns the strategic solution roadmap and translates complex requirements into differentiated, executable solutions. The Solution Lead will help transform Astrion’s CIR business from SETA-heavy labor delivery to repeatable, technology-enabled Mission Solutions that generate reusable evidence, tools, data, and outcomes. The role will lead technical solution development for priority captures and mature offerings such as Mission Evidence Packs, Digital Twins, OT/ICS Assessment & Hardening, Exercise & Readiness packages, resilience dashboards, and sector-specific readiness solutions. This role thrives in ambiguity and works with the Campaign Lead, Mission Segment Leaders, Operations, Growth, Astrion Core / Solutions leadership, Engineering, Finance, Contracts, partners, and customers to shape pursuits, develop technical approaches and roadmaps, make make/buy/partner decisions, build demonstrations, prototypes, and MVPs, and tie solution investments to qualified pipeline and customer outcomes." We can combine that into one or two paragraphs. Metadata: LOCATION: Arlington, VA; Washington, D.C.; Columbia, MD (HYBRID) JOB STATUS: Full-time CLEARANCE: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance CERTIFICATION: INCOSE, PMP, CISSP, GICSP, CISA/CISM, IEC 62443 (preferred) TRAVEL: Up to 30% REPORTS TO: EVP & Mission Area Executive - Critical Infrastructure Resilience SALARY RANGE: $200K - $250K We can put location, job status, clearance, certification, travel, reports to in a paragraph. Salary range will go in Pay section. Now Responsibilities: list bullet points from the responsibilities section. We need to extract each responsibility sentence. The responsibilities section is a long paragraph with many sentences separated by periods. We'll break into bullet points for each distinct responsibility. Let's list: - Own the CIR mission-area solution roadmap across Transportation Infrastructure, Energy Infrastructure, and DIB Infrastructure. - Serve as the senior solution architect and technical lead for priority captures and proposals, ensuring each has differentiated, executable, and repeatable solution approaches. - Lead end-to-end technical solution development for priority RFIs, Sources Sought notices, and RFPs: decompose requirements, engage customers pre-RFP to validate needs and sharpen positioning, architect solutions, lead technical volumes and reviews, and support post-award transition. - Define, mature, and package CIR Mission Solutions, including Mission Evidence Packs, Digital Twins, OT/ICS Assessment & Hardening, Exercise & Readiness packages, resilience dashboards, and sector-specific readiness solutions that model dependencies, test degraded operations, validate remediation, and produce defensible mission evidence. - Partner with Growth, Capture, and Program leadership to align solution development with 12-36 month pipeline priorities, customer demand, capture strategies, acquisition approaches, and technology trends. - Translate complex customer mission challenges and government requirements into solution concepts, mission models, technical approaches, reference architectures, concepts of operations, implementation roadmaps, technical volumes, delivery playbooks, and post-award transition plans. - Author and direct customer-facing technical narratives, white papers, proposal content, solution graphics, and reference architectures with limited direction. - Lead make/buy/partner recommendations for the CIR solution roadmap, including gaps in OT/ICS, digital twin engineering, AI/data, cyber-physical assessment, commercial channels, and partner-enabled delivery. - Integrate Astrion catalog capabilities and tools into CIR Mission Solutions where appropriate and contribute reusable CIR solution modules to Astrion’s solution catalog. - Build and manage technical partner strategies with cloud, AI, digital twin, OT/ICS, control-system OEM, infrastructure engineering, national laboratory, small-business, and commercial channel partners. - Establish solution governance and maturity criteria to move offerings from concept through pilot to scalable delivery; apply lessons from wins, losses, pilots, and transitions; and use requirements-to-test traceability and mission evidence where appropriate. - Partner with Growth, Finance, Contracts, and Operations to support packaging, technical work breakdown structures and bases of estimate, pricing, contract type considerations, data rights, partner roles, and product-attached services. - Create customer-facing and internal artifacts, including capability statements, solution briefs, demos, prototypes, MVP backlogs, white papers, reference architectures, technical differentiators, technical volumes, and proposal language. Now Required Qualifications / Skills: list bullet points. Extract each bullet: - Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, operations research, business, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements. - 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution development, systems engineering, digital engineering, cyber-physical resilience, test and evaluation, critical infrastructure, defense, civil, energy, transportation, or GovTech markets. - 8+ years of leadership experience leading multidisciplinary technical, engineering, solution-architecture, productized-services, or matrixed pursuit teams. - Proven experience leading technical solution development across the government acquisition and proposal lifecycle, from customer shaping and opportunity qualification through RFIs, Sources Sought, RFPs, technical volumes, white papers, reviews, oral presentations, and post-award transition. - Ability to translate complex government requirements and mission challenges into traceable solution architectures, technical approaches, work breakdown structures, bases of estimate, reference architectures, implementation roadmaps, MVPs, risks, and assumptions from concept through repeatable delivery. - Demonstrated ability to turn services-based capabilities into repeatable, market-facing Mission Solutions, including reusable artifacts, tools, dashboards, demonstrations, delivery playbooks, and proposal-ready technical content. - Strong understanding of systems engineering, mission integration, operational test and evaluation, cyber-physical resilience, digital engineering, data/AI, OT/ICS, or infrastructure modernization. - Experience collaborating with capture managers, business development leaders, subject matter experts, partners, pricing, contracts, and operations to develop differentiated, executable win strategies and delivery approaches. - Demonstrated judgment in make/buy/partner decisions, including assessment of internal capability gaps, partner technologies, build vs. buy tradeoffs, and investment priorities. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for customers, operators, growth teams, partners, and senior leadership. - High tolerance for ambiguity, strong critical judgment, and the ability to structure and advance solutions with incomplete information while managing multiple concurrent pursuits under tight deadlines. - U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. Now Preferred Qualifications / Skills: list bullet points. Extract: - Experience in critical infrastructure resilience, mission assurance, transportation modernization, energy resilience, nuclear / advanced reactor markets, or DIB Infrastructure. - Experience with one or more priority customer or market areas, including FAA/DOT, DHS/TSA/CISA/CBP, DOE/NNSA, NRC, national laboratories, DoD infrastructure, NAVFAC, USACE, commercial nuclear, SMRs, utilities, airports, ports, rail/transit, hyperscalers, or data-center energy infrastructure. - Experience with digital twins, model-based systems engineering, geospatial analytics, AI-enabled decision support, mission-thread modeling, consequence analysis, requirements-to-test traceability, reliability analytics, or operational readiness dashboards. - Experience with OT/ICS/SCADA environments, industrial control systems, facility-related control systems, control-system OEMs, or OT cyber vendors and standards such as IEC 62443, NIST guidance, CISA guidance, RMF, or CMMC. - Experience building or integrating partner ecosystems across cloud, AI, digital twin, OT/ICS, control-system OEM, infrastructure engineering, national laboratory, small-business, or commercial partners. - Experience with DOE/NNSA Management & Operating contractors, national laboratory procurement pathways, regulated-commercial infrastructure owners/operators, or international infrastructure markets. - Experience with IR&D planning, product management, Agile / MVP delivery, MOSA / open-architecture principles, platform-enabled services, or product-attached professional services. - Experience supporting M&A diligence or technology acquisition decisions for capability gaps in digital engineering, OT/ICS, AI, cyber-physical resilience, critical infrastructure, or energy markets. - Active Secret or TS/SCI clearance. - Relevant certifications such as INCOSE, PMP, CISSP, GICSP,