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THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP.\nRole Description: \nWe are seeking a talented and motivated Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional guidance, support, and enablement focused on our Unicorn Delivery Service projects and capabilities. You will work closely with technical groups driving towards mission impact, providing technical expertise, proactive assistance, and strategic insights to maximize mission impact. This role is instrumental in ensuring a seamless and successful customer experience throughout the initial engagement and transition to longer-term execution.\nResponsibilities\nAct as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals.\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and support of customer engagements.\nUnderstand and articulate the technical competency and impact of engineers on the team.\nUnderstand Defense Unicorns' products and philosophy.\nAssist the team in discovery and framing efforts across the industry.\nIdentify and implement process improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.\nAssist with demonstration and content creation on products.\nManage the \"proof of concept\" work.\nBuild and maintain continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.\nBuild, deploy, test, and troubleshoot UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams for brainstorming, research, and innovative growth strategies.\nConduct market research and competitor analysis to identify growth opportunities.\nStay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to growth hacking and user acquisition.\nExperiment with new tools, techniques, and technologies to improve growth outcomes.\nThe listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.\nClearance & Travel\nCitizenship: U.S. citizenship required.\nTravel: 25%.\n Security Clearance: Secret\nPreferred Experience and Qualifications\nProven experience in growth engineering, digital marketing, or related roles within a tech startup environment.\nExtensive knowledge in containerization and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate, persuade and negotiate.\n7+ years of experience in software engineering, with 1+ years in a manager role.\nProven track record of leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.\nPreferred knowledge in the CNCF ecosystem and tooling.\nKnowledge in system architecture both cloud and on-prem.\nAbility to architect solutions based on potential customer requirements and articulate those solutions.\nStrong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data for informed decision-making.\nProficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript) and familiarity with web technologies.\nSelf-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.\nExperience with training and mentoring.\nExperience with full-stack development.\nUnderstanding of continuous delivery and agile principles.\n4+ years of experience with full-stack development teams.\n5+ years of experience with Defense-based customer-facing interactions and engagements.\nProven experience synthesizing technical solutions and making sense of them.\nExperience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Containers.\n\nFull compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States. \nRemote - USA\n$148,750—$201,250 USD\nWho We Are\nDefense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.\nWhat We Do\nWe create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.\nWho We Serve\nDefense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.\nWhat We Work On\nKubernetes\nCloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)\nInfrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)\nContinuous Delivery and automation tooling\nGitOps\nContainers\nCNCF projects and open source products and packages\nHelm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping\nBuilding and improving security delivery\nBuilding Kubernetes and cloud native applications\nBenefits Our Unicorns Enjoy\nHealth:\nMedical/Dental/Vision\nPremiums are 100% Company Paid\nHealth Savings Account\nLife Insurance\nDisability Insurance\nFinancial:\n401k Retirement Plan\nCompany Stock Options\nHome Office Budget\nLeave:\nWe offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s\nPaid Parental Leave\nLearning:\nReimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions\nConferences (travel, lodging, and fees)\nDon’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. \nAt Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. 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