Senior IT Solutions Architect, Business Development

SAIC; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Senior IT Architect to advance growth, lead deal assessments, and mentor teams across capture and solutioning. The role requires deep experience in BD, program execution, and government contracting, with the ability to influence win strategies and differentiate SAIC’s offerings.

The candidate will operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, collaborating with senior leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 20+ years related experience.
• Experience winning complex government contracts over $100M single-award
• Knowledge of federal procurement processes and contract types (CA/SA, OTA, OTA)
• Experience leading or contributing to BD, capture, and solution architecture for large programs
• U.S. Citizen with or able to obtain a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead/participate in deal assessments and maximize win probability.
• Mentor Capture Managers, BD, and Solution Architects.
• Engage on opportunities to improve deal quality and win strategy.
• Apply industry best practices (Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, MLOps) and AI to improve productivity and quality.
• Collaborate across Civilian, Space, Intelligence, and Defense domains to mature deals.

Skills

Leadership

Deal assessment

Capture management

Solution architecture

AI productivity

Education

BS in CS/IT/Engineering/Math

Job description

Senior IT Solutions Architect, Business Development

Job ID: 2616908
Location: Remote Work, VA, United States
Date Posted: Sep 21, 2026
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Enterprise Architect
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 25% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Remote Work: Remote
Benefits: Click here

Job Description

Description

SAIC is searching for a Senior IT Architect with strong desire to build excellence in the Growth organization by improving the performance of both capture teams and individual members. He/she must have proven success in capturing, managing, solutioning and/ or executing new business for Civilian, Space, Intelligence, and/ or Defense Domains to join our Pursuit Advancement Team. The Senior IT Architect will lead/participate in Deal Assessments, provide specific deal recommendations to maximize win probability, perform mentoring and coaching of Capture Managers, Business Development, and Solution Architects, and engage on opportunities to improve the deal quality and make our approach meaningful to the customer. This individual will have technical acumen and experience with Cloud, Data, AI/ML, IT/Software development, maintenance, and operations.

The Senior IT Architect is responsible for supporting tens of pursuits simultaneously with experience and ability to flex across multiple customer domains and technologies.

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate experience in multiple customer domains (Civilian, Space, Intelligence, and/ or Defense Domains).
• Demonstrate successfully performed in at least two roles in the business development and program execution lifecycle, i.e., capture, business development, line management, solutioning (architect, chief systems engineer), and/or technical or program management execution.
• Demonstrate excellent critical thinking, win-strategy development, problem solving, business acumen, and interpersonal skills to develop teams and construct near-term strategies for business development, capture, and solutioning designated deals.
• Demonstrate competent and confident leadership with an ability to effectively assess and contribute to deal quality improvement ideas, best practices and use of standard tools and processes, with emphasis on win strategies, value propositions, strength-based approaches, and technical and management solutions.
• Lead/ Participate in workshops to mature and improve quality of business development, capture, and solution artifacts.
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively in fast-paced, time sensitive and often multi-tasking environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply industry best practices (Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, MLOps, etc.)

Other duties and responsibilities:

• Effective collaboration with Capture Managers, BD leads, subject and technical matter experts, lead estimators, functional leads, Program and Proposal Managers with an ability to translate strategy and technical information into proposal submissions.
• Assess customer requirements by leveraging knowledge of FAR and non-traditional acquisitions, to recommend improvements for a targeted, differentiated win strategy.
• Assess competition, evaluating strengths and threats to differentiate SAIC against competitors.
• Assess win strategy; identify approaches to test and validate solutions with customers, advance value proposition and differentiated bid elements.
• Assess and recommend customer engagement opportunities to reinforce win strategy and shape deal toward SAIC’s strengths.
• Participate in internal gate reviews, execution risk reviews, and capture reviews; and document lessons learned.
• Ability to build and work within high-performance teams in a matrix-management environment.
• Participate in proposal color reviews as section lead, horizontal reviewer or volume/section contributor.
• Technical or Management section contributor/author for proposal development
• Execute Corporate BD CONOPS and implement SAIC growth culture.
• Identify gaps and develop strategies to overcome weaknesses and mitigate risks.
• Apply AI to increase productivity and quality
• Communicate clearly with senior and executive management within the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, IT, engineering, mathematics or other science plus twenty (20) years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated, sustained ability and reputation for leading or contributing to winning complex, product, and service contract awards for government with values reaching over $100M single-award deals
• Experience utilizing various contract vehicles.
• Experience in at least one more function: line management, business development, capture, and/or solution architecture for large programs valued at more than $100M.
• Demonstrable understanding of federal procurement acquisition process, contract types (CA/SA, OTA, Self-Scoring, IAC MAC TO, commercial, IDIQ - single or multiple award contracts), as well as payment types (e.g., FFP, T&M, cost plus) is expected.
• Experienced and confident working with senior and executive management within the company and with senior level Government customers.

CLEARANCE

• U.S. Citizen with or able to obtain a Secret clearance.

TRAVEL

• Up to 25% travel

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives. We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit the newsroom.