Solutions Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology seeks a Senior Solution Architect to guide enterprise technology direction across multiple task orders and product lines. You will lead architecture decisions to ensure cohesive, scalable solutions aligned with enterprise priorities.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps, cloud-native design, and integration of AI-enabled tools to improve developer productivity and mission outcomes. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• TS/SCI with Poly
• 10+ years in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years as a solutions architect.
• 3+ years leading multiple teams across task orders.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise technology direction across multiple product lines.
• Lead architectural decisions to ensure cohesive, scalable solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize applications and reduce duplication.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve performance, security, and user experience.
• Ensure alignment with sponsor standards and enterprise priorities.
• Guide AI integration within the development lifecycle and automation.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Containerization

DevSecOps

Security compliance

Architectural leadership

AI-enabled tools

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

AKS

EKS

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Why GDIT

Are you ready to be a part of an elite team at GDIT, working on alarge-scale,pioneering National Intelligence program? This is an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself into an environment that fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard ourNation.

At GDIT, you'll thrive in a dynamic and collaborative setting, where your technical skills will be both challenged and expanded. This program offers the chance to engage with cutting‑edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission. You'll play a critical role in addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today.

Come join us and contribute to a mission that truly matters, while advancing your career alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.

What You’ll Achieve

The Solution Architect plays a strategic, high-impact role at the IDIQ level, embedded within the PMO and serving as the lead architect across multiple task orders and product lines. In this role, you will:

• Serve as the single, trusted focal point for application portfolio rationalization across the IDIQ, driving consistency and alignment among multiple projects and teams

• Provide architectural leadership across multiple task orders and product lines, ensuring solutions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise priorities

• Proactively identify opportunities to consolidate and modernize applications, reduce technical duplication, and simplify the technical environment

• Evaluate and recommend emerging and existing technologies that improve performance, security, user experience, and mission outcomes for the customer.

• Guard against the adoption of competing or redundant technologies by driving alignment to an enterprise-wide vision and standards

• Lead and influence the implementation of the Sponsor’s unified systems roadmap across product lines, systems, and services at the IDIQ level

• Ensure solutions consistently comply with Sponsor standards, architectures, and long-term strategies, while balancing innovation with risk and cost

• In addition, you will help shape and execute our strategy for integrating AI‑enabled tools and capabilities into the development lifecycle by identifying opportunities for automation, improving developer productivity, and advising on responsible, mission‑aligned AI adoption.

This position is ideal for architects who enjoy shaping enterprise technology direction at scale, partnering closely with the PMO, and driving measurable improvements across a broad portfolio of complex, mission-critical initiatives.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Experience analyzing and rationalizing IT portfolio-based platform(s) (cloud applications, hardware, software) to support enhancements to current applications and systems; as well as streamlining and consolidating stacks

• Experience and knowledge of various architecture patterns such as microservices

• Experience with designing and implementing cloud-based solutions

• Experience architecting solutions for Salesforce and ServiceNow

• Experience in developing/supporting complex technical solutions.

• Experience and familiarity integrating with emerging technologies into an enterprise framework

• Mentor and coach engineers on DevSecOps, agile delivery, and automation best practices.

• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and practices in DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers, and serverless, and recommend improvements.

• Program Delivery Oversight

  • Monitor team roadmaps and delivery milestones

  • Identify blockers and risks impacting delivery

  • Conduct root cause analysis when teams miss objectives

  • Identify and implement process improvements

  • Translate technical issues into executive-level communications

  • Participate in Monthly Program Management Reviews (PMRs) - delivery health and risk reporting

  • Technical Advisory

    • Serve as technical advisor to division leadership on strategic initiatives

    • Participate in executive meetings requiring deep technical expertise

    • Bridge communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

• TS/SCI with Poly

• 10+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

• 5+ years of experience as a solutions architect

• 3+ years of experience leading multiple teams across task orders, or similar leadership role.

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for complex applications.

• Hands‑on experience with:

  • CI/CD tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, ArgoCD).

  • Source control and branching strategies (Git, trunk‑based, GitFlow, etc.).

  • Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services for VMs, containers, and serverless.

  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, EKS, GKE).

  • Serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions).

  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).

  • Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including automated security testing and compliance integration.

  • Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar scaled frameworks).

  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

  • Demonstrated experience evaluating and integrating AI‑enabled development tools, with the ability to identify automation opportunities, improve developer workflows, and guide responsible AI adoption within complex software environments.

  • Demonstrated experience working with ServiceNow and/or Salesforce and its core capabilities, including integrating workflows managing platform configuration, and leveraging their solutions to support enterprise development operational needs.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Master’s or Doctorate degree in a related field.

• Certifications such as:

  • AWS/Azure/GCP Architect or DevOps Engineer

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar

  • DevOps or Agile certifications (e.g., SAFe RTE, SAFe DevOps, CSM, PSM)

  • Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP)

• Experience implementing policy-as-code and security-as-code (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, Conftest).

• Experience using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure