Remote Senior Solutions Architect - Growth & Leadership

Defense Unicorns; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 148,750 - 201,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Health Insurance Premiums 100% Company

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Reimbursement for trainings/subs

Conferences (travel, lodging, fees)

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Solutions Architect to guide customers through Unicorn Delivery Service projects, build scalable architectures, and ensure successful engagement from initial exploration to execution.

You will lead teams, champion Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns, and translate customer needs into actionable engineering plans while collaborating across functions. This remote USA role offers competitive compensation and strong benefits for mission-focused software delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 1+ years in a manager role.
• Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience with Defense-based customer-facing interactions and engagements (5+ years).
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Ability to architect solutions based on customer requirements and articulate them clearly.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and support of customer engagements.
• Understand and articulate the technical competency and impact of engineers on the team.
• Assist the team in discovery and framing efforts across the industry.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deploy/validate UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages.

Skills

leadership

communication

growth engineering

full-stack development

defense customer interactions

cloud-native architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Containers

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Solutions Architect to guide customers through Unicorn Delivery Service projects, build scalable architectures, and ensure successful engagement from initial exploration to execution.

You will lead teams, champion Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns, and translate customer needs into actionable engineering plans while collaborating across functions. This remote USA role offers competitive compensation and strong benefits for mission-focused software delivery.