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The role serves as the primary bridge among requirements analysis, enterprise architecture, platform architecture, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders by transforming mission and business needs into actionable solution approaches.\nThe Solution Architect assesses current-state capabilities, identifies functional and technical gaps, evaluates alternatives, and develops recommendations that balance business value, implementation complexity, operational impacts, organizational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability. The role helps organizations determine not only what is being requested, but whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy the need, what gaps must be addressed, and what solution approach provides the most effective path forward.\nWorking closely with engineering teams, cybersecurity, system teams, and business stakeholders, the Solution Architect supports working groups, architectural reviews, and investment discussions by providing objective analysis and solution recommendations grounded in both business priorities and technical realities.\nSuccess is measured by the program's ability to make informed decisions, address capability gaps, leverage existing investments, and implement solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes while minimizing unnecessary complexity, duplication, risk, and technical debt.\nRequirements\nResponsibilities:\nAnalyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.\nFacilitate discussions with stakeholders to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes.\nEvaluate completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications of proposed requirements.\nTranslate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations.\nCapability Assessment and Gap Analysis\nAssess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities.\nIdentify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities.\nDetermine whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy stakeholder requirements.\nDocument findings and develop recommendations for addressing identified gaps and deficiencies.\nSolution Formulation and Alternative Analysis\nDevelop solution concepts and candidate approaches that address identified business needs and capability gaps.\nEvaluate multiple alternatives and analyze associated benefits, risks, dependencies, implementation complexity, operational impacts, and costs.\nFacilitate analysis of alternatives, trade studies, and decision-support activities.\nRecommend solution approaches that balance mission value, technical feasibility, organizational readiness, and long-term sustainability.\nRecommendation Development and Decision Support\nDevelop decision-ready recommendations supported by objective analysis and documented rationale.\nClearly communicate benefits, tradeoffs, constraints, risks, assumptions, and implementation considerations.\nSupport working groups, review boards, architecture governance processes, and executive decision forums.\nAssist leadership in understanding the implications of competing solution approaches before committing resources.\nImplementation Planning Support\nAssist project and program teams in translating approved solutions into implementation plans.\nIdentify dependencies, sequencing considerations, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs.\nSupport planning activities associated with deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement.\nHelp reduce implementation risk through early identification of technical, organizational, and operational challenges.\nRequired Skills\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.\nAt least 12 years of experience supporting solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related technology transformation initiatives.\nExperience analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating those requirements into actionable solution approaches.\nDemonstrated experience assessing current-state capabilities, identifying capability gaps, evaluating constraints, and developing recommendations that align business needs with technical realities.\nExperience developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operational capabilities.\nExperience conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, capability assessments, and solution evaluations within complex enterprise environments.\nExperience evaluating solution alternatives and performing trade studies that consider business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle costs, and long-term sustainability.\nExperience identifying opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns to satisfy stakeholder requirements.\nExperience supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, stakeholder engagement, solution assessments, and decision-support activities across multiple business and technology domains.\nExperience formulating recommendations supported by technical analysis, business considerations, operational impacts, implementation constraints, and strategic objectives.\nExperience working closely with enterprise architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations organizations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders.\nExperience developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, solution recommendations, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nPreferred Skills\nExperience supporting engineering and operations, working groups, platform teams, Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), Technology Review Boards (TRBs), governance forums, investment reviews, or comparable decision-making bodies.\nExperience conducting capability assessments, gap analyses, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), trade studies, modernization assessments, technology evaluations, and business case development.\nExperience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, cloud migration, service delivery improvement, platform rationalization, or technology lifecycle management initiatives.\nExperience facilitating stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, architecture reviews, operational assessments, and executive decision-support activities.\nExperience developing business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, solution roadmaps, transition plans, implementation strategies, or modernization plans.\nExperience supporting large-scale, geographically distributed, mission-critical, highly available, or regulated enterprise environments.\nExperience identifying opportunities to improve interoperability, reduce redundancy, strengthen service delivery, and optimize technology investments.\nProfessional certifications in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, systems engineering, project management, IT service management, cloud architecture, or related disciplines.\nMethods, Frameworks, and Tooling\nThe Solution Architect is expected to operate across organizational, business, service, operational, application, data, infrastructure, and platform domains. Successful candidates should demonstrate broad familiarity with enterprise technologies, architecture methods, service management practices, and solution delivery approaches.\nExperience working across multiple technology domains including infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, software development, data and analytics, cybersecurity, service management, and systems integration.\nAgile delivery methodologies, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, and iterative solution delivery.\nOne or more major cloud service providers and associated enterprise services, including commercial and government cloud environments.\nCI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, and release management practices.\nEnterprise architecture, modeling, and visualization tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ArchiMate, or comparable platforms.\nPerformance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, and 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