Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

Systems Engineering Solutions Corporation · Suitland, United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-08

Workplace: remote

Description

Years of Experience: 12 years

Education Requirements: Bachelors

Position Description: The Solution Architect evaluates stakeholder requirements, business objectives, operational needs, enterprise capabilities, architectural constraints, and technical dependencies to formulate practical, scalable, secure, and supportable solution recommendations. The role bridges requirements analysis, enterprise and platform architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders, transforming mission and business needs into actionable solution approaches.

The Solution Architect assesses current-state capabilities, identifies functional and technical gaps, evaluates alternatives, and develops recommendations that balance business value, complexity, operational impacts, organizational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability. The role helps determine whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy a need, what gaps must be addressed, and which approach offers the most effective path forward.

Working closely with engineering, cybersecurity, system teams, and business stakeholders, the Solution Architect supports working groups, architectural reviews, and investment discussions with objective analysis and recommendations grounded in business priorities and technical realities.

Success is measured by the program's ability to make informed decisions, address capability gaps, leverage existing investments, and deliver measurable business outcomes while minimizing complexity, duplication, risk, and technical debt.

Requirements

·       Take a deep dive into systems to understand how they are constructed, using traditional solutions architecture and systems assessment principles.

·       Analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.

·       Facilitate stakeholder discussions to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes.

·       Evaluate the completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications of proposed requirements, and translate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations.

·       Deep AWS architecture expertise, including selection and integration of compute, containers, serverless, storage, databases, networking, identity, security, observability, analytics, and DevOps services using AWS Well-Architected principles.

·       Hands-on AWS design experience with services such as EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling.

·       Application architecture and engineering experience (Java, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, databases, containerization, automated testing, CI/CD, observability), translating architecture decisions into actionable engineering guidance.

Capability Assessment and Gap Analysis

·       Assess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities.

·       Identify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities, and determine whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy stakeholder requirements.

·       Document findings and develop recommendations for addressing identified gaps.

Solution Formulation and Alternative Analysis

·       Develop solution concepts and candidate approaches that address business needs and capability gaps.

·       Evaluate alternatives for benefits, risks, dependencies, complexity, operational impacts, and costs, and facilitate analyses of alternatives, trade studies, and decision-support activities.

·       Recommend approaches that balance mission value, technical feasibility, organizational readiness, and long-term sustainability.

Recommendation Development and Decision Support

·       Develop decision-ready recommendations supported by objective analysis and documented rationale.

·       Select and justify AWS services and architecture patterns based on workload requirements, security boundaries, availability, performance, scalability, operability, and lifecycle cost.

·       Clearly communicate benefits, tradeoffs, constraints, risks, assumptions, and implementation considerations.

·       Support working groups, review boards, governance processes, and executive decision forums, helping leadership understand the implications of competing approaches before committing resources.

Implementation Planning Support

·       Assist project and program teams in translating approved solutions into implementation plans.

·       Identify dependencies, sequencing, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs to support deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement.

·       Help reduce implementation risk by identifying technical, organizational, and operational challenges early.

Required Skills

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent education and professional experience.

·       At least 12 years of experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related transformation initiatives.

·       Deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem.

·       Experience analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating them into actionable solution approaches.

·       Experience assessing current-state capabilities and conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, and solution evaluations in complex enterprise environments, with recommendations that align business needs with technical realities.

·       Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operations.

·       Experience evaluating alternatives and performing trade studies that weigh business value, complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle cost, and sustainability.

·       Experience leveraging existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns to satisfy stakeholder requirements.

·       Experience supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder engagement, and formulating recommendations grounded in technical analysis, business considerations, and strategic objectives.

·       Experience working closely with enterprise and platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders.

·       Experience developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings.

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts, alternatives, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Skills

·       AWS Professional Architect or Developer Pro Certification

·       Experience supporting engineering and operations, working groups, platform teams, Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), Technology Review Boards (TRBs), governance forums, investment reviews, or comparable decision-making bodies.

·       Experience conducting capability assessments, gap analyses, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), trade studies, modernization assessments, technology evaluations, and business case development.

·       Experience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, cloud migration, service delivery improvement, platform rationalization, or technology lifecycle management.

·       Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, architecture reviews, operational assessments, and executive decision support.

·       Experience developing business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, solution roadmaps, transition plans, or modernization plans.

·       Experience supporting large-scale, geographically distributed, mission-critical, highly available, or regulated enterprise environments.

·       Experience improving interoperability, reducing redundancy, strengthening service delivery, and optimizing technology investments.

·       Professional certifications in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, systems engineering, project management, IT service management, cloud architecture, or related disciplines.

Methods, Frameworks, and Tooling

·       Ability to operate across organizational, business, service, operational, application, data, infrastructure, platform, networking, cloud, software, cybersecurity, and integration domains, with broad familiarity with enterprise technologies, architecture methods, service management practices, and solution delivery approaches.

·       Agile delivery methodologies, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, and iterative solution delivery.

·       One or more major cloud service providers and associated enterprise services, including commercial and government cloud environments.

·       CI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, and release management practices.

·       Enterprise architecture and modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ArchiMate, or comparable platforms.

·       Performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, and operational analytics.

·       Architecture frameworks, capability modeling, business architecture, service architecture, systems engineering, and decision-support methodologies.

Soft Skills

• Analytical thinking: Breaks down complex business and technical problems into understandable components and identifies practical paths forward.
• Requirements discipline: Distinguishes between true business requirements, stakeholder preferences, assumptions, and implementation constraints.
• Problem solving: Identifies capability gaps, operational challenges, architectural deficiencies, and organizational barriers and develops actionable recommendations.
• Solution formulation: Develops practical solution alternatives that balance mission needs, technical feasibility, operational realities, risk, cost, and sustainability.
• Critical thinking: Challenges assumptions, validates information, evaluates alternatives objectively, and identifies unintended consequences before decisions are made.
• Business alignment: Understands organizational objectives and ensures recommendations deliver measurable mission and business value.
• Systems thinking: Understands how decisions affect business processes, applications, platforms, infrastructure, security, operations, governance, funding, and customer outcomes.
• Consensus building: Brings together stakeholders with competing priorities and helps organizations reach informed, balanced decisions.
• Decision-support mindset: Develops objective, evidence-based recommendations and clearly communicates trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and impacts.
• Pragmatism: Focuses on implementable solutions rather than theoretical architectures or technology preferences.
• Influence: Gains credibility through analysis, reasoning, communication, and demonstrated understanding of organizational challenges.
• Accountability: Takes ownership of recommendations and remains focused on successful implementation, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Clear communication: Explains complex issues, alternatives, impacts, and recommendations in language appropriate to technical and business audiences.
• Documentation discipline: Produces accurate, decision-ready assessments, recommendations, architecture artifacts, and supporting analysis that can be leveraged throughout implementation and operations.

Benefits

• SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

• Medical

• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance

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