Senior Government Solutions Architect – AI & Data

Windward; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Windward is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to design and deliver advanced software, data, and AI solutions for important U.S. Government customers in the Washington, D.C. area.

You will work with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Delivery to translate requirements into practical architectures and demonstrations. This senior, hands-on, customer-facing role leads discovery, evaluations, and early deployments while mentoring the U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solutions architecture or related senior customer-facing roles.
• Experience delivering enterprise software, data, analytics, or AI solutions to U.S. Government customers.
• Strong depth across APIs, data integration, cloud architecture, data pipelines, analytics, and AI tech.
• Hands-on with LLMs, generative AI, agentic architectures, retrieval and grounding.
• Familiarity with MCP, agent-to-tool integration, and connecting enterprise data to LLM apps.
• Able to build credible demonstrations and practical integrations, not just designs.
• Understanding of defense, intelligence, homeland security, or law enforcement environments.
• Excellent communication with technical teams, mission users, and senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative, fast-evolving tech/customer use-case environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solution design for strategic U.S. Government opportunities, from early discovery through evaluation, proposal, and deployment.
• Build and deliver 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

Sales engineering

Enterprise software

AI / ML

APIs

Cloud architecture

Data integration

LLMs / Generative AI

Agentic architectures

Public sector

Job description

Windward is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to design and deliver advanced software, data, and AI solutions for important U.S. Government customers in the Washington, D.C. area.

You will work with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Delivery to translate requirements into practical architectures and demonstrations. This senior, hands-on, customer-facing role leads discovery, evaluations, and early deployments while mentoring the U.S.