Solutions Architect

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Innovation, Prototyping, Request for Proposals (RFP), Solution Architecture

Certifications:

None

Experience:

15 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Solutions Architect of Cloud Solutions.GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Solutions Architect,our work depends on two activities that win and prove our work: writing winning technical proposals and building the proofs of concept that show agencies what "good" actually looks like.

Some weeks you'll be heads-down on a technical volume against a hard RFP deadline. Others you'll be in a sandbox environment standing up a working prototype for a client demo. If you like being the person who can both articulate the architecture on paper and then go build it, this is that job.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll own solutions end to end, and you'll be trusted to run a bid's technical approach or a client POC without day-to-day direction. You will not be a full-time bid writer, and you will not be a full-time engineer; you'll be the bridge between them.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Serve as a credible senior technical voice in front of federal customers, teaming partners, and cloud provider field teams
• Maintain working fluency in the compliance frameworks our clients operate under: FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO, and federal Zero Trust requirements under current OMB and CISA guidance
• Build and maintain relationships with [AWS, Microsoft, Google] public sector partner teams

Proposal and capture support:

• Serve as technical lead or contributing author on cloud architecture content for RFP, RFI, RFQ, and sources-sought responses: technical volumes, architecture diagrams, transition plans, and management approach sections
• Translate agency requirements (PWS/SOW/SOO) into defensible technical solutions with clear discriminators, not boilerplate
• Develop basis-of-estimate inputs, level-of-effort assumptions, and cloud cost models that pricing and capture can actually use
• Participate in Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews; incorporate reviewer feedback under deadline pressure without losing the thread of the solution
• Support oral presentations and technical Q&A with agency evaluators
• Build out our reusable technical library: reference architectures, technical case studies, reusable solution modules, and technical past-performance assets

Proofs of concept and prototyping:

• Scope, build, and demo working POCs and pilots in federal cloud environments that address a specific client problem
• Stand up infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and data or AI/ML pipelines as the use case demands
• Run technical discovery sessions and whiteboard workshops with client architects, CIO/CTO staff, and program leadership
• Evaluate prototypes for security, data protection, cost, and operational suitability. What we show has to survive contact with an ATO
• Document POC outcomes clearly enough that they become the technical foundation of the follow-on proposal or task order
• Hand off successful prototypes to delivery teams with architecture documentation, runbooks, and a clean IaC repo

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience
• Required Experience:  15+ years in cloud architecture, engineering, or technical presales, including 3+ years supporting federal government customers or federal contracts
• Required Technical Skills: Deep hands-on experience in AWS or Azure, including its federal regions; Direct experience contributing technical content to federal proposals. You've written to an evaluation factor and been scored on it; Practical skill with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, and Python;      Working knowledge of FedRAMP and the ATO process; Strong technical writing
• Attributes for Success: Good communication skills and comfortable with interaction with all levels of staff, to include other solutions architects, leadership, in addition to interfacing with business owners and customers
• Preferred Skills: Professional-level cloud certification: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect; Security certification such as CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent; Google Cloud experience, particularly in Assured Workloads or other federal-eligible configurations; Hands-on experience designing or prototyping modern data, AI/ML, or Generative AI solutions using cloud-native services and enterprise data sources: RAG, enterprise search and knowledge retrieval, model and API integration, or AI-enabled data platforms;   Experience with federal contract vehicles and task-order competitions; Familiarity with Shipley or a comparable capture and proposal methodology; Prior experience at a systems integrator or a cloud provider's public sector organization; Strong backend skills in at least one of Node/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, or C#, and comfort building and consuming REST APIs
• Location: 100% remote working
• Travel:  10% travel, to include visiting Falls Church, VA, as needed

Work visa sponsorship will not be considered for this role

This position does not accept submissions from third‑party agencies or corp‑to‑corp entities. Only direct applicants are eligible for consideration.

The likely salary range for this position is $170,144 - $218,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.