Senior Solution Architect

Company: Leidos
Location: Belleville
Posted on: January 23, 2025

Job Description:

DescriptionThe Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Senior Solution Architect for Innovations supporting the Global Solutions Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA's operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA's mission partners. The Solution Architect will be a part of a multifaceted, matrixed, and integrated innovations team, supporting a large, complex, and innovative AWS cloud-based solution.The Solution Architect will establish strategic solution vision and design and create complex solution architectures, define requirements, and author design documentation and related technical artifacts that drive current and future program results, improving efficiency within the program and delivering improvements to service delivery to the customer, while working closely with the Chief Architect, engineering leads, and customer stakeholders. The Solution Architect will own solution design, engaging with all technical teams on the program, establish logical and physical architectures, lead technical designs, determine priorities, scope additional work, and oversee the planning and development of capabilities, and will lead the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise.This position is primarily remote; however, travel to GSM-O sites is required when necessary and candidates must be within commuting distance to either Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD. A DoD Secret clearance is required to start.Primary ResponsibilitiesArchitecture and Design

• Own the solution architecture of a large, cloud-based operations support system platform, responsible for the architecture and design, and accountable for creating and implementing innovative technical solutions for the GSM-O program.
• Lead architectural design and technical planning, including roadmap development and implementation of modern techniques and technologies such as Cloud (AWS), Software Defined Networking (SDN), AIOps, AI/ML, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Develop and maintain complex solution architectures and design documentation, ensure alignment with strategic objectives and program goals, integrate new technologies into architectures, and evaluate tools for high-quality delivery.
• Support innovation planning, analytical research, architecture, and design development across the innovations portfolio, and analyze government customer requirements to develop system requirements specifications.
• Facilitate problem-solving to manage risk, remove impediments, drive program-level continuous improvement, validate system characteristics, properties and behaviors, and enable early feedback.
• Own the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise, leveraging technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost/risk, and supportability effectiveness analyzes for systems across the DISN and GSM-O.
• Support evaluation of new technologies, platforms or enhancements which could expand or enhance the GSMO-II program.
• Support the design, implementation, and execution of test cases and testing framework for the instantiation of infrastructure as code in environment to verify the quality of deployed code.Collaboration
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, vendors, and government personnel, to define technical solutions, resolve dependencies, and drive positive change within the program.
  • Conduct senior-level customer presentations and demonstrations, and interface with government customers to brief technical solutions, status, and issues.
  • Negotiate and manage project scope, timelines, and budgets, and resolve challenges through planning adjustments.
  • Guide government customers in formulating functional, hardware, and/or software requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.Basic Qualifications
    • Hold an active security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher.
    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8+ years of prior relevant experience.
    • Experience leading strategy development, architecture creation, design, development, and delivery of data-driven capabilities, within a DoD environment.
    • Demonstrated ability to drive technological innovation and serve as an agent of change within an organization.
    • Strong technical breadth and depth in support of the government markets, particularly in government network design, implementation, operations, and modernization.
    • Familiarity with networking fundamentals, and experience designing network-based solutions.
    • Experience architecting large scale cloud native architecture design utilizing industry security standards.
    • Experience with data architectures and pipelines for structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data across various data repositories and data lakes.
    • Experience with front-end technologies, UI/UX design, and Agile DevSecOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
    • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum ceremonies and experience with Agile work management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.Preferred Qualifications
      • Familiarity with AI/ML models for processing and analyzing large datasets, AI/ML-based Automation, and AIOps concepts.
      • Proven expertise in mission software solutions related to data science, machine learning, or similar technologies.
      • Strong networking experience, including familiarity with BGP, MPLS, IP, and optical networking concepts, tools, and practices.Travel and Clearance
        • Travel to GSM-O sites (
        • Must possess and maintain a DoD Secret clearance or higher.Original Posting Date: 2024-11-08Pay Range: Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
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