Senior Solution Architect

Trinzic; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with company match

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Flexible spending account

Paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

KBR's Defense & Intel team seeks a dynamic Senior Solution Architect to drive technical strategy and solution design for government opportunities. The role requires a strong background in creating innovative, customer-focused solutions and supporting capture, proposals and oral presentations.

Location: Northern Virginia with travel 0-20%. Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for TS/SCI is required. Scheduled hours: 40 per week, with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with at least 10 years of prior experience.
• Experience leading technical solutioning in defense/intelligence markets with DoW/IC focus.
• Ability to translate customer objectives into compliant, winning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Engage in customer shaping, requirements gathering and proposal support activities.
• Lead development of technical volumes for proposals and ensure RFP compliance.
• Translate objectives into innovative technical solutions addressing mission challenges.
• Develop artifacts like system designs, roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Lead and write technical proposals, whitepapers and collateral.

Skills

Leadership

Solution architecture

Proposal support

BD collaboration

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Job description

Title:

Senior Solution Architect

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR's Defense & Intel team is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Solution Architect with a strong background in creating innovative and customer focused solutions to join our Solution Architect team. This role is pivotal in driving the technical strategy and solution design for business opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and organizational goals. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record working in Government, Defense, and Intelligence communities, providing support to capture efforts, proposal writing, and oral presentations.

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform, modernize, and accelerate delivery of new capabilities. If you thrive at the intersection of technology and business development, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and KBR capabilities to design, develop, and deliver winning proposals.

• Collaborate with Business Development, Capture, and Proposal teams to craft compelling, technically sound solutions that align with customer needs and win strategies.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into proposal artifacts.
• Lead the development of technical volumes for proposals, including writing, reviewing, and editing content to ensure compliance with RFP requirements.
• Translate customer objectives into innovative technical solutions that address mission challenges while adhering to budget and schedule constraints.
• Conduct market research, identify discriminators, and articulate value propositions that differentiate our solutions from competitors.
• Develop comprehensive artifacts such as system designs, technical roadmaps, and implementation plans to support proposal efforts.
• Participate in reviews to refine proposal content and ensure alignment with win themes.
• Research emerging technologies and incorporate them into solution designs to enhance competitiveness.
• Lead and write technical proposals, whitepapers and develop other collaterals in support of technical solutions.
• Provide responses to request for information (RFI) and government market surveys or sources sought notice.
• Provide basis of estimates (BOEs) for technical solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 10 years of prior experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• The candidate should possess strong team building and leadership capabilities that will engage key internal and external sources to develop clear, concise solutions to difficult problem sets across the DoW and IC.
• Experience leading technical solutioning in partnership with business development and capture management teams; Technical solutioning experience will be in the defense and intelligence community markets for technology-centric business units providing both services and products to US Government customers.
• Proven ability to successfully derive customer solutions based on understanding of customer problems that meet technical objectives within cost and schedule. From this in-depth understanding, the ideal candidate will be able to interact with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Key Stakeholders (internal to KBR and external), Technical Experts, and other key roles to develop a compelling Solution for strategic growth markets and opportunities aligned with the NSS growth strategy.
• Understanding of Cybersecurity, System of Systems, Software, and Agile Engineering current and emerging processes in use across Defense and Intelligence Customer communities such as Digital Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), DevSecOps, and Cloud Architectures.

Clearance Requirements:

Active Top Secret Clearance is required, with eligibility for TS/SCI .

Work Environment:

• Location: Northern Virginia; Dayton OH; Colorado Springs CO; El Segundo CA; King of Prussia PA; Huntsville AL; Charleston SC; Patuxent River, MD
• Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20%
• Working Hours: Standard

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 hours per week.

Basic Compensation:

• $189,000.00 - $284,000.00 (This range is for the Colorado area only).
• $198,000.00 - $298,000.00 (This range is for the Maryland area only).
• $207,000.00 - $311,000.00 (This range is for the California and Northern Virginia areas only).

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Additional Compensation:

KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.