Solutions Architect Director

SAIC; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC’s Civilian Business Group seeks a Chief Engineer to drive mission success across State and Local and federal civilian customers. You will architect innovative solutions, lead high-performance teams, and guide pre-award activities from capture through delivery.

You will coordinate with account teams and customers to define objectives, manage risk, and ensure security and compliance throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 18+ years of related experience.
• Minimum 10 years of solutions development and implementation.
• Minimum 5 years of technical team leadership.
• Experience bidding and winning Civilian Government work.
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including Agile/Scrum, SAFe/Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Architect and recommend detailed, innovative solutions approaches that implement a technical vision to ensure customer mission success.
• Partner with Accounts and customer stakeholders to identify opportunities, mature opportunity definition, and capture solution objectives.
• Lead development of concepts of operations, requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecture, interfaces, data architectures, verification and validation, system integration and life cycle cost estimation.
• Support technical review and assessment of readiness of technical solutions in reviews.
• Perform detailed technical analysis to identify risks, issues, requirements, and opportunities with solution implementation, including tradeoff analyses and analysis of alternatives.
• Integrate security and compliance of solutions through the development life cycle.
• Coordinate activities of engineering leads, solution architects and SMEs to develop and deliver solutions in proposal phase and in contract execution.
• Ensure conversion of requirements into total systems solutions addressing technical, schedule, cost, and customer constraints.

Skills

Solution architecture

Leadership

Pre-sales / bid/win

Communication

Agile / SAFe / DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Security

18+ years of related experience

Job description

SAIC's Civilian Business Group is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Chief Engineer to drive customer mission success, solutions maturity, and integration of numerous technologies across multiple State and Local customer accounts and a diverse group of federal civilian customers and agencies.

Roles and Responsibilities

The candidate will:

• Architect and recommend detailed, innovative solutions approaches that implement a technical "vision" to ensure customer mission success
• Partner with Accounts and customer stakeholders to identify opportunities, mature opportunity definition, and capture solution objectives
• Lead development of concepts of operations, requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecture, system analysis and design, interfaces, data architectures, verification and validation, system integration, system and operational performance analysis, and life cycle cost and estimation procedures.
• Support technical review and assessment of readiness of technical solutions in formal and informal reviews
• Perform detailed technical analysis to identify risks, issues, requirements, and opportunities with solution implementation, including tradeoff analyses and analysis of alternatives to solve complex technical problems
• Integrate security and compliance of solutions through the development life cycle
• Coordinate activities of engineering leads, solution architects and/or SMEs to develop and deliver solutions in proposal phase and in contract execution
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that address technical, schedule, cost, and customer organizational constraints

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Security or equivalent and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum ten (10) years of solutions development and implementation required
• Minimum five (5) years of technical team leadership of high-performance teams required
• Must have successful experience bidding and winning work with Civilian Government agencies or the equivalent
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles, methods, and techniques to include Agile/Scrum, SAFe/Agile, DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methods
• Hands‑on experience in solution development in capture and proposal environments and implementing solutions in ongoing programs, including delivery of the final product
• Must have experience architecting in one or more technical domains, to include, but not limited to IT infrastructure, System/Application Development and management, IT Service Delivery, cybersecurity, cloud management, data science, & digital/business transformation.
• Must have excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to produce finished content for delivery to customers, and meet with them regarding SAIC's capabilities, services and solutions. This also includes proposal development, writing, and reviewing skills and working effectively with account management.
• Must have a track record of working in a team‑based environment through effective collaboration with multiple (pre‑sales or pre‑award) disciplines including, but not limited to; account management, business development, capture, proposal, pricing, competitive intelligence, contracts, subcontracting/vendor management, program management, recruiting, solution & product development, and other team members involved in optimizing our proposed solutions.
• Must be able to multi‑task across several concurrent efforts.
• Must be able to identify technical staff skills to support pre‑award activities.
• Must be able to lead and coordinate work assignments of the account, proposal, technical, and support team members throughout the pre‑award process.
• Must have experience with the Federal Government procurement processes; desired experience includes the newer and more "commercial" derivatives of the process (e.g. OTAs, PTAG, agile contracting, etc.)
• Must have ability to empower and grow subordinates as well as communicate effectively to senior and executive management

Required Clearance

US Citizenship