Solutions Architect/Lead

US Citizenship Required. Active Top Secret clearance required; must currently possess an Interim Secret clearance and be able to obtain Top Secret/SCI.

About the Role

The Solutions Architect leads the technical architecture and engineering enabling a modernized cyber command center for national cyber defense across Critical Infrastructure, SLTT, and Federal Civilian partners. The role owns the end-to-end technical design for how infrastructure, operational, and threat data is ingested, normalized, correlated, and delivered to operators, and serves as the primary technical interface to government leadership. It directs three delivery teams—data engineering, cloud platform/authorization, and application delivery—ensuring technical coherence and alignment.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership & Technical Direction
  • Own the end-to-end architecture, including data flow, integration patterns, and processing layer boundaries
  • Define and maintain integration designs across data sources, analytics, and operator applications
  • Set interface and schema standards for the operator application
  • Make and document architecture decisions shaping the authorization boundary, hosting model, and sustainment posture
  • Establish technical standards, design reviews, and governance
• Data & Integration Architecture
  • Direct the unified data model for infrastructure, operational, and threat information
  • Set normalization and correlation approaches aligned to open standards
  • Oversee ingestion and enrichment pipelines, including onboarding, data quality, and lineage
  • Direct analytic service design and the controls governing their output
• Cloud Platform & Authorization Architecture
  • Own cloud architecture, including hosting, network, identity, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Define approaches for handling data of varying sensitivity
  • Drive architecture decisions supporting ATO, including boundary definition, inheritance, and monitoring
  • Work with security and authorization teams to ensure a defensible architecture
  • Establish deployment, environment, and release architecture
• Application & Operator Experience Integration
  • Direct application technical design and its interface to the underlying data/event layer
  • Ensure operator experience aligns to mission needs rather than data structures
  • Own integration contracts and ensure traceability to requirements
• Technical Leadership & Team Direction
  • Lead technical delivery teams, set priorities, resolve dependencies, and maintain design coherence
  • Provide technical direction and mentorship across data, platform, and application engineering
  • Align technical sequencing with operational milestones
  • Identify and mitigate technical risks, including integration and authorization risks
• Customer & Partner Technical Engagement
  • Serve as the primary technical interface to government leadership, presenting architecture and trade-offs
  • Support technical exchanges, demos, and design reviews
  • Coordinate integration with partners, vendors, and third-party providers

Requirements

• Experience as a lead/principal architect on enterprise systems integrating multiple data sources
• Demonstrated cloud architecture experience in regulated environments
• Experience with data integration and normalization to open standards
• Working knowledge of RMF and architecture decisions shaping an authorization boundary
• Experience directing engineering teams across multiple disciplines
• Ability to present technical decisions to senior government stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting national-level cyber programs
• Experience in advanced data modeling or graph-based architecture
• Experience linking entities across heterogeneous sources at scale
• Familiarity with ICS/OT data and critical infrastructure modeling
• Experience designing or deploying analytics/ML in accredited environments
• Experience leading a system through initial ATO
• Certifications such as CISSP or advanced cloud architecture

Skills

• Cloud Architectures
• Data Integration
• Technical Architecture
• Technical Designs
• Technical Leadership

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• 401(k) plan with company match (pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits)
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• Flexible work weeks where possible
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel accident insurance
• AI-powered career tool for identifying career steps and learning opportunities
• Internal mobility team focused on career growth

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000.

Schedule

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: Less than 10%
• Telecommuting Options: Hybrid
• Work Location: USA VA Arlington (additional work locations possible)