Job Title: Principal Mission Solution Architect
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%
Type of Travel: Local
Anticipated Posting End: 3/1/2027
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical solution development for the largest and most complex pursuits, from early customer shaping through proposal, oral presentation, award, and transition.
- Recommend operational plans, solution strategies, technical standards, and reusable patterns that strengthen M&ES capabilities, improve solution quality, and support business growth over a 1–2 year horizon.
- Work with LOB leaders, Capture, BD, program teams, SMEs, and mission experts to identify customer priorities, operational gaps, critical issues, stated or implied requirements, and discriminators.
- Translate mission needs into solution concepts, CONOPS, mission workflows, system architectures, staffing models, transition approaches, risk mitigations, and measurable outcomes.
- Shape solutions across M&ES capability areas, including lifecycle sustainment; systems engineering and software modernization; operations, planning, training, and readiness; intelligence analysis and operations; and UXS/C-UXS employment and integration.
- Integrate people, process, technology, data, cyber, training, sustainment, and operations into a coherent solution; use SMEs for depth while retaining ownership of the integrated approach.
- Lead development of scorable strengths, discriminators, proof points, storyboards, annotated graphics, white papers, technical volume outlines, and persuasive technical narratives.
- Serve as technical volume lead or senior technical authority, including writing, rewriting, one-voicing, page-count management, solution alignment, and defense through gate, color-team, and executive reviews.
- Brief senior leaders on novel or high-impact solutions, alternatives, risks, and recommendations; influence decisions on matters of strategic importance to the organization.
- Establish and improve solution-development processes, technical patterns, reusable artifacts, and lessons learned; help define standards and methods used by the SA community.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent mission and technical experience; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of relevant experience supporting DoD, IC, interagency, or federal national-security missions.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Recognized expertise or mastery across multiple technical or mission areas (intelligence analysis or operations; systems or mission engineering; offensive or defensive cyber and cyber mission operations; mission operations support; UXS/C-UXS, ISR platforms, autonomy, or emerging mission systems), combined with sound business acumen and the ability to develop holistic solutions.
- Proven experience leading technical solutions for large, complex, strategically important federal captures, proposals, capability-development efforts, or mission programs and influencing senior leadership decisions.
Desired:
- Current CI or full-scope polygraph.
- Experience leading strategic captures valued at $1B or more in total contract value.
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Pay Range:
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$137,400-$302,300