Solution Architect (Ft. Belvoir, VA)

About the role

BLN24 is seeking a Solution Architect to join our team. The Solution Architect will translate mission needs into implementable, secure, and scalable solution architecture across multiple highly regulated environments and successfully deliver MVP. This role is especially critical because deployment is anticipated in FedRAMP IL5 and SIPR environments, where architecture decisions must account for compliance constraints, boundary protections, identity and access controls, data segregation, hosting limitations, accreditation artifacts, and operational sustainment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and architect COTS/GOTS or custom solution to be hosted in Army’s NIPR and SIPR environments.
• Integrate COTS/GOTS or custom solution with external systems.
• Define solution that will fit Army’s requirements for SaaS, PaaS or AWS GovCloud computing.
• Understand and ensure security compliance and solution fit for the Army.
• Lead integration of SaaS COTS solutions, like Salesforce or Appian.
• Create and update reference architecture documentation, including specifications and diagrams.
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) documentation and security reviews.
• Design secure connectivity between the application and Army enterprise systems while minimizing public network exposure.
• Define integration patterns using REST APIs, messaging, file transfer, event-driven architectures, and enterprise middleware.
• Define identity and access integration using enterprise authentication services including CAC, Active Directory, Entra ID (where applicable), SAML, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, cloud, engineering, system, application development.
• Experience integrating and deploying COTS SaaS and PaaS systems.
• Experience in architecting custom solutions and deployments in NIPR environments.
• Experience with Amazon AWS GovCloud and knowledge of AWS services and structures.
• Excellent architecture skills and ability to develop architecture diagrams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active CompTIA Security + certification.
• Active AWS Professional certifications.