Remote Defense Solutions Architect: Cloud & AI Adoption

Lever, Inc.; Boston, Dayton (MA, OH); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Aether Aerospace seeks a Solutions Architect to accelerate adoption of digital engineering, software factory, cloud, and AI capabilities for DoD and national security customers. You will translate complex tech into mission value, engage with operators and senior leaders, and drive training, demos, and ongoing enablement.

This role emphasizes listening, teaching, and building trusted relationships across government, industry, and program teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 7+ years in technology adoption, customer success, technical communications, product management, engineering, training, or mission enablement.
• Ability to understand complex technical systems and explain them clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated success building trusted customer relationships and driving adoption of new technology or ways of working.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, storytelling, writing, and active-listening skills.
• Experience creating demonstrations, workshops, onboarding experiences, and reusable enablement content.
• Working knowledge of cloud, software factories, DevSecOps, digital engineering, or artificial intelligence.
• Ability to synthesize feedback into actionable themes without overpromising program capabilities.
• Comfort operating across organizational boundaries and with senior military, civilian, and industry stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage a high volume of engagements and follow-up actions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a stakeholder engagement and adoption strategy for the program’s capabilities.
• Build trusted relationships with government leaders, engineers, users, platform teams, and mission partners.
• Translate technical features into compelling mission use cases, outcomes, demonstrations, and success stories.
• Plan and deliver briefings, workshops, demonstrations, office hours, training sessions, and community events.
• Identify adoption barriers, user pain points, misconceptions, and organizational constraints and route them to the appropriate program owners.
• Create reusable messaging, presentations, playbooks, onboarding materials, FAQs, and technical narratives tailored to different audiences.
• Develop user communities and champion networks that increase peer-to-peer learning and sustained adoption.
• Capture customer feedback and usage evidence and help product and engineering teams prioritize improvements.
• Measure adoption through engagement, onboarding, usage, satisfaction, and mission-impact indicators.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

TS/SCI preferred

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud

DevSecOps

Digital engineering

Artificial intelligence

Job description

Aether Aerospace seeks a Solutions Architect to accelerate adoption of digital engineering, software factory, cloud, and AI capabilities for DoD and national security customers. You will translate complex tech into mission value, engage with operators and senior leaders, and drive training, demos, and ongoing enablement.

This role emphasizes listening, teaching, and building trusted relationships across government, industry, and program teams.