Senior Solutions Architect & Program Lead

Dcode; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 116,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Dcode is seeking a Senior Systems & Solutions Architect to design and deploy secure, scalable architectures for mission-critical government environments in Washington, DC. You will translate complex requirements into concrete architectures and guide cross-functional teams through deployment, integration, and validation.

Ideal candidates bring experience across DoD-style or regulated settings, with a track record leading architecture workstreams, defining interfaces, and ensuring operational

Qualifications

• This work was performed within government, national security, or other mission environments that are highly regulated.
• You have turned ambiguous operational problems into coherent technical architectures.
• You have led technical efforts across stakeholders, organizations, vendors, or disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing network systems, infrastructure, interfaces, dependencies, and security boundaries.
• Translate mission needs into current-state and future-state architectures.
• Develop architectures and deployment plans for secure, scalable solutions.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, and APIs for integration.
• Support verification objectives and ensure implementation-readiness.

Skills

Systems architectures

Stakeholder collaboration

Security & compliance

DoDAF/MBSE

AI-enabled architectures

Education

Certifications helpful

Tools

Cloud-native & hybrid infra

Zero Trust & IAM

Job description

Dcode is seeking a Senior Systems & Solutions Architect to design and deploy secure, scalable architectures for mission-critical government environments in Washington, DC. You will translate complex requirements into concrete architectures and guide cross-functional teams through deployment, integration, and validation.

Ideal candidates bring experience across DoD-style or regulated settings, with a track record leading architecture workstreams, defining interfaces, and ensuring operational