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