Cloud Solutions Architect - TS/SCI w/ FS Poly

Leading Path Consulting; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical premiums

Generous PTO

401K contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Spot bonuses

Team events

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting seeks a Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership and deliver cloud-based software, IT, and data solutions for mission-critical needs.

The role collaborates with software engineers, AI/ML experts, data scientists, and stakeholders to shape the technical vision, architecture standards, and roadmaps while ensuring secure, scalable cloud implementations across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/CE or equivalent experience.
• At least eight years in software or systems architecture or related leadership roles.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale software solutions, cloud architectures, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on AWS cloud design and optimization.
• Ability to lead a technical vision aligned with customer goals.
• Strong collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Experience documenting architecture and briefing executives.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to development teams, aligning with enterprise architecture and best practices.
• Design and maintain scalable, secure, cloud-enabled architectures for enterprise systems.
• Identify gaps, assess risks, and plan improvements for performance and maintainability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/ML and cloud services for mission outcomes.
• Lead AWS cloud implementations emphasizing scalability, security, resiliency, and cost control.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate to define technical direction and deliver enterprise solutions.
• Prepare roadmaps aligning technology with customer mission objectives.
• Document architecture artifacts and deliver executive briefings.
• Ensure objectives meet security and operational needs.

Skills

Full-stack development

Enterprise architecture

AWS cloud

AI/ML evaluation

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/CE

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

AWS

Cloud tooling

Architecture documentation tools

Job description

This role is under our flagship partner supporting mission critical functions and technical leadership!

• Active TS/SCI w/ FSP is REQUIRED

There is flexibility in the work schedule/core hours and even in the work you do sprint to sprint once the burning hot issues have been resolved following your initial onboarding.

The Solutions Architect is responsible for providing technical leadership and delivering customer-focused software, cloud, and IT solutions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This position works directly with development teams, stakeholders, and customer leadership to establish and maintain the organization's technical vision, enterprise architecture, and technology roadmap. The Solutions Architect designs and maintains scalable, reliable, secure, and cloud-based architectures that align with customer mission objectives, technical requirements, and industry best practices while supporting full-stack applications, collection systems, network solutions, and enterprise services.

The individual will identify technical gaps and develop strategies to address them, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend innovative solutions that improve operational capabilities. Working collaboratively with software engineers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers, and external partners, the Solutions Architect establishes technical standards, leads the design and implementation of AWS cloud solutions, identifies opportunities to leverage AI and other emerging technologies, prepares technical briefings and documentation, and ensures project objectives are achieved on schedule while meeting customer and user requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring alignment with customer technical requirements, enterprise architecture, and industry best practices.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, secure, and cloud-enabled technical architectures supporting enterprise systems and applications.
• Identify technical gaps, assess risks, and develop implementation strategies to improve system performance, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and cloud services, recommending adoption where they improve mission outcomes.
• Design, implement, and support AWS cloud-based solutions that emphasize scalability, security, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain technical standards, architecture guidelines, and best practices across development teams.
• Collaborate with software engineers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers, stakeholders, and external partners to define technical direction and deliver enterprise solutions.
• Support development of technical roadmaps that align technology investments with customer mission objectives and long-term business goals.
• Understand the customer's existing application landscape and recommend modernization efforts, architectural improvements, and new capabilities.
• Communicate technical plans, architectural decisions, and project status clearly and effectively with all stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver technical briefings, architecture presentations, and project updates upon request.
• Establish, maintain, and manage technical documentation within customer repositories.
• Ensure project objectives are achieved on schedule while meeting customer requirements, security standards, and operational needs.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Minimum eight (8) years of experience in software engineering, systems architecture, enterprise architecture, or related technical leadership roles.

Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions, cloud architectures, and distributed systems.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in full-stack software development utilizing multiple programming languages, frameworks, and modern development technologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing technical architectures for complex enterprise systems, including web applications, collection systems, network solutions, and cloud-based environments.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing AWS cloud solutions.
• Experience evaluating and implementing emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and automation capabilities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, system scalability, security, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate a clear technical vision aligned with customer mission requirements and business objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify complex technical issues and develop effective solutions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams and customer organizations.
• Experience developing technical standards, architectural guidance, and engineering best practices.
• Experience preparing technical documentation, architecture artifacts, and executive-level briefings.

Desired Qualifications

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Certification{{{{:}}}} AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Certification{{{{:}}}} TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
• Experience developing and implementing enterprise AI/ML solutions.
• Experience supporting enterprise modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Experience developing long-term technology roadmaps and innovation strategies.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or other Federal Government customers.

Benefits

Leading Path is an award-winning Information Technology and Management Consulting firm focused on providing solutions in process, technology, and operations to our government and Fortune 500 clients. We offer a professional and family friendly work environment with a strong work-life balance. Leading Path provides a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including fully paid medical/dental/vision premiums, generous PTO, 11 Paid Holidays, 6% 401K contribution, annual training and tuition reimbursement, SPOT Award bonuses, regular team events, opportunities for professional growth and advancement and much more!