Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Interim Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Cloud Architectures, Data Integration, Technical Architecture, Technical Designs, Technical Leadership
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Solutions Architect / Lead
Position Summary
The Solutions Architect leads the technical architecture and engineering enabling a modernized cyber command center for national cyber defense across Critical Infrastructure, SLTT, and Federal Civilian partners. The role owns the end-to-end technical design for how infrastructure, operational, and threat data is ingested, normalized, correlated, and delivered to operators, and serves as the primary technical interface to government leadership. It directs three delivery teams-data engineering, cloud platform/authorization, and application delivery-ensuring technical coherence and alignment.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Ownership & Technical Direction
• Own the end-to-end architecture, including data flow, integration patterns, and processing layer boundaries
• Define and maintain integration designs across data sources, analytics, and operator applications
• Set interface and schema standards for the operator application
• Make and document architecture decisions shaping the authorization boundary, hosting model, and sustainment posture
• Establish technical standards, design reviews, and governance
Data & Integration Architecture
• Direct the unified data model for infrastructure, operational, and threat information
• Set normalization and correlation approaches aligned to open standards
• Oversee ingestion and enrichment pipelines, including onboarding, data quality, and lineage
• Direct analytic service design and the controls governing their output
Cloud Platform & Authorization Architecture
• Own cloud architecture, including hosting, network, identity, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code
• Define approaches for handling data of varying sensitivity
• Drive architecture decisions supporting ATO, including boundary definition, inheritance, and monitoring
• Work with security and authorization teams to ensure a defensible architecture
• Establish deployment, environment, and release architecture
Application & Operator Experience Integration
• Direct application technical design and its interface to the underlying data/event layer
• Ensure operator experience aligns to mission needs rather than data structures
• Own integration contracts and ensure traceability to requirements
Technical Leadership & Team Direction
• Lead technical delivery teams, set priorities, resolve dependencies, and maintain design coherence
• Provide technical direction and mentorship across data, platform, and application engineering
• Align technical sequencing with operational milestones
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, including integration and authorization risks
Customer & Partner Technical Engagement
• Serve as the primary technical interface to government leadership, presenting architecture and trade-offs
• Support technical exchanges, demos, and design reviews
• Coordinate integration with partners, vendors, and third-party providers
Required Qualifications
• Experience as a lead/principal architect on enterprise systems integrating multiple data sources
• Demonstrated cloud architecture experience in regulated environments
• Experience with data integration and normalization to open standards
• Working knowledge of RMF and architecture decisions shaping an authorization boundary
• Experience directing engineering teams across multiple disciplines
• Ability to present technical decisions to senior government stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years relevant experience
• Active Top Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting national-level cyber programs
• Experience in advanced data modeling or graph-based architecture
• Experience linking entities across heterogeneous sources at scale
• Familiarity with ICS/OT data and critical infrastructure modeling
• Experience designing or deploying analytics/ML in accredited environments
• Experience leading a system through initial ATO
• Certifications such as CISSP or advanced cloud architecture
The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. 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:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA VA Arlington
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. 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.
