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Senior Solutions Architect (Federal Civilian Growth)

Ad Hoc LLC · McLean, VA · 3 wk ago
Engineering$180k–$260k/yrFull-time

Primary Responsibilities

  • Partners with Growth, Capture, and GTM leadership to qualify and shape strategic federal opportunities
  • Supports capture and proposal efforts from early qualification through submission
  • Develops technical win themes, discriminators, and customer-focused solution narratives
  • Translates complex technical concepts into clear business and customer value
  • Collaborates with proposal, pricing, delivery, and engineering teams to align technical and growth strategies
  • Contributes to technical proposal content, architecture approaches, staffing concepts, and solution frameworks
  • Participates in customer conversations, technical discussions, and growth strategy meetings
  • Acts as a trusted technical advisor during capture and solutioning activities
  • Maintains awareness of federal civilian acquisition trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies
  • Identifies capability gaps and contributes to recommendations for strategic investments, partnerships, or technical improvements
  • Sustains reusable playbooks, technical artifacts, and solutioning frameworks that improve proposal quality and speed
  • Operates as a player/coach during strategic pursuits, helping align customer needs with scalable technical solutions
  • Parses across teams with limited bureaucracy and strong autonomy to help shape growth initiatives and solutioning practices

Basic Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional experience across technical consulting, engineering, architecture, delivery, or related technical environments
  • 5+ years of recent and relevant experience supporting federal capture, business development, proposal strategy, sales engineering, or solutioning efforts
  • Demonstrated experience supporting qualification, capture, and development of federal government proposals
  • Strong technical foundation with the ability to understand and communicate modern technical architectures and solution approaches
  • Experience translating technical capabilities into compelling customer-focused solution narratives
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Familiarity with federal procurement environments, evaluation criteria, and acquisition processes
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with GTM, proposal, delivery, and technical teams
  • Ability to operate strategically in fast-moving and evolving growth environments
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience from organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, or Accenture
  • Experience supporting Federal Civilian agencies, particularly Treasury, IRS, Commerce, NOAA, USCIS, HHS, CMS, VA, or similar civilian agencies
  • Background in technical consulting, enterprise modernization, cloud transformation, DevSecOps, platform engineering, or digital services
  • Experience contributing to technical proposals, orals presentations, capture strategies, or customer solutioning conversations
  • Familiarity with federal contract vehicles, proposal operations, or structured capture processes
  • Experience operating in agile, high-growth, or highly collaborative environments

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