Lead Consultant -Business Solutions (Solutions Lead)

Maximus; Tysons (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a senior solution architect to own end-to-end strategy and architecture for complex opportunities. You will align cross-functional teams across operations, technology, pricing, and delivery to ensure a delivery-ready, compliant solution for public-sector programs.

The role emphasizes facilitation of workshops, risk analysis, and a strong focus on client outcomes. This is a remote US-based position with opportunity to influence large-scale health and human services programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 7+ years of experience.
• Lead solution design across pursuits, workshops, and proposal content.
• Experience in government health and human services or similar public sector environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution strategy and architecture for opportunities.
• Lead cross-functional solution design and workshops across the pursuit lifecycle.
• Translate strategy into executable solution narratives and proposal content.
• Present and defend solution approaches to leadership, capture, and client stakeholders.

Skills

Solution design

Facilitation

Cross-functional leadership

Pursuit strategy

Government services

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Own the end-to-end solution strategy and architecture for assigned opportunities, ensuring the solution is complete, integrated, compliant, competitive, and delivery-ready.- Establish solution assumptions, design principles, guardrails, and decision criteria to guide technical, operational, pricing, and delivery teams.- Resolve solution decisions and tradeoffs by balancing client requirements, capture strategy, delivery feasibility, pricing assumptions, risks, and competitive positioning.- Lead solutioning across the opportunity lifecycle, from early qualification and pre-bid strategy through proposal submission, governance reviews, and transition to delivery.- Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and decision forums with cross-functional teams to define, refine, and validate the integrated solution approach.- Keep the solution integrated and delivery-ready by managing dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and alignment across technical, operational, staffing, implementation, and pricing components.- Assign analytical priorities and workstreams to analysts supporting solution development, including requirements analysis, capability mapping, gap assessment, staffing inputs, risk analysis, and competitive research.- Review, validate, and synthesize analyst outputs to ensure accuracy, relevance, completeness, and alignment with solution strategy and proposal needs.- Translate analytical findings into solution decisions, design inputs, assumptions, risks, and proposal content that support a credible and executable solution.- Develop and contribute to proposal solution content, ensuring narratives accurately reflect the approved solution and remain internally consistent, compliant, and compelling.- Present and defend solution approaches with internal leadership, capture teams, proposal teams, and, when appropriate, client stakeholders.- Participate in client workshops, oral presentations, demonstrations, solution walk-throughs, and related engagement activities when needed to support pursuit strategy and solution credibility.- Lead business solution design workstreams for pursuits, client opportunities, and transformation initiatives.- Facilitate discussions with operations, technology, pricing, pursuit operations, proposal, implementation, and subject matter experts to define service delivery models, business processes, staffing approaches, technology-enabled workflows, assumptions, risks, and differentiators.- Translate strategy and requirements into executive-ready solution narratives, proposal content, implementation concepts, process flows, graphics, and client presentation materials.- Provide guidance to consultants and analysts and help ensure solution content is feasible, compliant, cost-informed, and aligned to client outcomes.- Experience in government health and human services, contact center, eligibility, appeals/fair hearings, Medicaid, SNAP, unemployment insurance, workforce services, or similar public-sector/service delivery environments preferred.Minimum Requirements- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.Program Specific Requirements:- Leading solution design workstreams for complex pursuits, client engagements, or transformation initiatives.- Strong facilitation, operating model design, business process design, proposal content development, client presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.- Ability to align operations, technology, pricing, staffing, implementation, compliance, and client outcome considerations into a coherent solution.- Government services, health and human services, contact center, eligibility, Medicaid, SNAP, unemployment insurance, appeals/fair hearings, or similar program experience strongly preferred.This position is fully remote and will require a home office.Home office requirements:Reliable high-speed internet serviceMinimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivityMinimum 5 Mpbs upload speedsEEO StatementMaximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.Pay TransparencyMaximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.AccommodationsMaximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at [e-mail] .Minimum Salary$120,000.00Maximum Salary$180,000.00