Type of Requisition:Pipeline
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:None
Job Family:IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:Skills:CI/CD, DevOps, DevSecOps
Certifications:None
Experience:15 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:Yes
Job Description:What You'll AchieveThe Solution Architect plays a strategic, high-impact role at the IDIQ level, embedded within the PMO and serving as the lead architect across multiple task orders and product lines. In this role, you will:
- Serve as the single, trusted focal point for application portfolio rationalization across the IDIQ, driving consistency and alignment among multiple projects and teams
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple task orders and product lines, ensuring solutions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise priorities
- Proactively identify opportunities to consolidate and modernize applications, reduce technical duplication, and simplify the technical environment
- Evaluate and recommend emerging and existing technologies that improve performance, security, user experience, and mission outcomes for the customer.
- Guard against the adoption of competing or redundant technologies by driving alignment to an enterprise-wide vision and standards
- Lead and influence the implementation of the Sponsor's unified systems roadmap across product lines, systems, and services at the IDIQ level
- Ensure solutions consistently comply with Sponsor standards, architectures, and long-term strategies, while balancing innovation with risk and cost
- In addition, you will help shape and execute our strategy for integrating AI-enabled tools and capabilities into the development lifecycle by identifying opportunities for automation, improving developer productivity, and advising on responsible, mission-aligned AI adoption.
This position is ideal for architects who enjoy shaping enterprise technology direction at scale, partnering closely with the PMO, and driving measurable improvements across a broad portfolio of complex, mission-critical initiatives.
How You'll Make an Impact- Experience analyzing and rationalizing IT portfolio-based platform(s) (cloud applications, hardware, software) to support enhancements to current applications and systems; as well as streamlining and consolidating stacks
- Experience and knowledge of various architecture patterns such as microservices
- Experience with designing and implementing cloud-based solutions
- Experience architecting solutions for Salesforce and ServiceNow
- Experience in developing/supporting complex technical solutions.
- Experience and familiarity integrating with emerging technologies into an enterprise framework
- Mentor and coach engineers on DevSecOps, agile delivery, and automation best practices.
- Stay current with industry trends, tools, and practices in DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers, and serverless, and recommend improvements.
- Program Delivery Oversight
- Monitor team roadmaps and delivery milestones
- Identify blockers and risks impacting delivery
- Conduct root cause analysis when teams miss objectives
- Identify and implement process improvements
- Translate technical issues into executive-level communications
- Participate in Monthly Program Management Reviews (PMRs) - delivery health and risk reporting
- Technical Advisory
- Serve as technical advisor to division leadership on strategic initiatives
- Participate in executive meetings requiring deep technical expertise
- Bridge communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- TS/SCI with Poly
- 10+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- 5+ years of experience as a solutions architect
- 3+ years of experience leading multiple teams across task orders, or similar leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for complex applications.
- Hands-on experience with:
- CI/CD tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- Source control and branching strategies (Git, trunk-based, GitFlow, etc.).
- Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services for VMs, containers, and serverless.
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, EKS, GKE).
- Serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions).
- Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including automated security testing and compliance integration.
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar scaled frameworks).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled development tools, with the ability to identify automation opportunities, improve developer workflows, and guide responsible AI adoption within complex software environments.
- Demonstrated experience working with ServiceNow and/or Salesforce and its core capabilities, including integrating workflows managing platform configuration, and leveraging their solutions to support enterprise development operational needs.
Desired Skills and Experience- Master's or Doctorate degree in a related field.
- Certifications such as:
- AWS/Azure/GCP Architect or DevOps Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar
- DevOps or Agile certifications (e.g., SAFe RTE, SAFe DevOps, CSM, PSM)
- Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP)
- Experience implementing policy-as-code and security-as-code (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, Conftest).
- Experience using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
The likely salary range for this position is $195,240 - $264,148. 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:Onsite
Work Location:USA VA Chantilly
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.
