Remote Senior Solutions Architect: Cloud & DoD Solutions

SMX; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement

Job summary

SMX is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and delivery of DoW solutions, guiding architecture decisions, and mentoring teams in a fast-paced, security-focused environment.

The role requires top-secret clearance, a CS degree, 10+ years in gov/commercial solutions, and hands-on experience with Agile/SAFe, cloud operations, and modern IT practices. Expect leadership in proposal work and business development while driving innovative software initiatives.

Qualifications

• Clearance Required: Top Secret.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a related discipline or commensurate work experience.
• At least ten (10) years of experience in one or more of the following areas in a corporate or government solutions environment: Software life-cycle management, Systems engineering, Prior progressively increasing technical leadership.
• Experience as Solution Architect with multiple full life-cycle customer implementations.
• Experience with various software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, SAFe).
• Experience with architectural and implementation-level design.
• Experience with customer engagement and project management.
• Experience with modern IT practices, DevSecOps, and cloud operations (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise on customer engagements to address complex solution architecting and project issue resolution.
• Provide technical expertise on capture and growth development activities, supporting business development customer engagements.
• Lead architecture and specification development for next generation solutions for our customers. Advise development teams throughout delivery and assist with design decisions to ensure delivery of high-quality applications, and enhancement of the user experience.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates and client service delivery through coaching and mentorship.
• Stay abreast of innovation and advances in development tools, programming techniques, and computing systems through participation in training programs, reading of professional publications, maintaining of professional and personal networks, as well as engagement with professional organizations.
• Develop and institutionalize go-to-market strategies for software applications and solutions.
• Assist in the collection, documentation, analysis and development of software requirements, system integration activities, user requirements, user stories, timelines, and work plans that cover project execution from design to delivery.
• Ensure project procedures and controls are identified, communicated, and followed.
• Provide regular project status updates to internal and external clients regarding project progress, resource allocation, risk and issues encountered or identified, and any modifications to project requirements.
• Lead research and design activities in the development and testing of new software and tools.
• Conduct analysis of commercially available, open source, government furnished, and contractor furnished software.
• Take responsibility in making strategic decisions that will help ensure the implementation of initiatives.
• Lead and contribute to proposal as author and reviewer and identify technical resource needs to support compliant proposal responses.
• Assist SMX leadership in the development of new work through identification of new business opportunities.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Job description

SMX is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and delivery of DoW solutions, guiding architecture decisions, and mentoring teams in a fast-paced, security-focused environment.

The role requires top-secret clearance, a CS degree, 10+ years in gov/commercial solutions, and hands-on experience with Agile/SAFe, cloud operations, and modern IT practices. Expect leadership in proposal work and business development while driving innovative software initiatives.