Senior Government AI Solutions Architect

Windward; Maryland; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Windward is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to design and deliver advanced software, data, and AI solutions for U.S. Government customers. You will work with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams to translate requirements into practical, deployable architectures and demonstrations.

You will lead technical discovery, create reusable assets, and guide early deployments while mentoring a broader U.S. solutions team in a fast-evolving, mission-critical environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
• Experience delivering enterprise software, data, analytics, or AI solutions to U.S. Government customers.
• Strong technical depth across APIs, data integration, cloud architecture, data pipelines, analytics, and modern AI technologies.
• Practical experience with LLMs, generative AI, agentic architectures, retrieval and grounding approaches, tool use, and AI application integration.
• Familiarity with emerging AI interoperability standards and architectures, including MCP, agent-to-tool integration, and connecting enterprise data sources into LLM-driven applications.
• The ability to build credible demonstrations, integrations, and technical solutions yourself — not just design them.
• Understanding of defense, intelligence, homeland security, or law enforcement customers and their operational environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical teams, mission users, program leaders, and senior government stakeholders.
• A practical, collaborative approach and comfort operating in an environment where both the technology and customer use cases are evolving quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solution design for strategic U.S. Government opportunities, from early discovery through evaluation, proposal, and deployment.
• Build and deliver compelling demonstrations, workshops, and technical evaluations around customer use cases.
• Work directly with analysts, operators, engineers, and program teams to understand requirements and translate them into practical solution designs.
• Design integration and deployment approaches across customer data, APIs, cloud environments, GovCloud, and classified environments.
• Develop reusable solution assets including demo environments, reference architectures, integration patterns, MCP-based connectors, and evaluation frameworks.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to bring customer requirements, technical feedback, and emerging AI use cases into the product roadmap.
• Lead technical content for RFIs, RFPs, proposals, and discussions with primes and systems integrators.
• Serve as a senior technical resource and mentor for the broader U.S. solutions team.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Govt customers

APIs & data integration

LLMs & AI integration

AI interoperability MCP

Hands-on demos

Gov/defense domain knowledge

Communication skills

Collaborative mindset

Job description

Windward is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to design and deliver advanced software, data, and AI solutions for U.S. Government customers. You will work with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams to translate requirements into practical, deployable architectures and demonstrations.

You will lead technical discovery, create reusable assets, and guide early deployments while mentoring a broader U.S. solutions team in a fast-evolving, mission-critical environment.